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rohlbak

  • n  the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw
  • n  reducing prices back to some earlier level

  • A Democratic judiciary staffer supportive of a rollback said, "We understand the political reality.
  • No sooner had the Government's first rollback of livestock prices gone into effect last week than the nation faced a shortage of beef.
  • Nonetheless, the fact remains that in recent decades we have seen a rollback of women's rights in many societies -- sometimes a drastic rollback -- due to the influence of Islamic .
News & Articles

  • TSX drops as Verizon threat hits telecoms, golds dive
    By John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index stumbled on Wednesday after telecoms stocks suffered deep losses on reports that U.S. giant Verizon Communications Inc is looking to enter the market, while gold miners shares were pummeled as bullion prices tumbled. Weakness in the two sectors more than offset gains in financial shares after U.S. data helped calm fears of a rollback in ...
    June 26, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Van Buren County property tax levy unchanged from 2012 following truth-in-taxation hearing
    The county would have been required to reduce the levy to 7.0608 mills under rules of truth-in-taxation, which requires municipalities to reduce millage to keep revenues the same as the previous year, but held a public hearing that allowed it to waive the rollback.
    June 26, 2013 - The Kalamazoo Gazette
Quotes

  • Sergey Lavrov in Forbes
    There has been a serious rollback from what we were told,Lavrov said, referring to October meetings in Moscow with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the two countries' defense chiefs.
  • Julie Bishop in The West Australian
    Julia Gillard is acting with undue haste and has not given serious consideration of the implications of Labor's reform rollback,Ms Bishop said in a statement.
  • Pranab Mukherjee in The Hindu
    There is no question of fuel price rollback,Mr. Mukherjee said on the sidelines of a conference organised by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India.

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