| But it's very ironic to me that this is a White House that has not been particularly helpful to the press, and now they're jawboning the press. |
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| Literature is filled with companionable, often jesting and jawboning mates, an endless procession of Nicks and Noras and Mr. and Mrs. Bennetts. |
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| We would argue that this whole process of jawboning the markets is part of an elaborate confidence trick on the part of the Fed. |
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| Pelosi confided that her counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Reid, has little patience for jawboning. |
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| More important, Greenspan is jawboning the bond market into believing that the specter of deflation will stop the Fed from tightening monetary policy anytime soon. |
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| Excuse us for being skeptical, but this sounds like so much political jawboning. |
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| But, the time to solve this problem is running short and prior attempts at jawboning have not produced a solution. |
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