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40 breathing sigh 39 Girding 39 thirsting 39 foreshadowing 39 keenly anticipating 39 presage 39 smarting 39 breathing collective sigh 39 portend 39 presaging 39 looms 39 waiting 39 limbering 39 hunkered down 39 foreshadow 39 weathered 39 Prepare 38 bone chilling wind gusts 38 expected 38 Prepping 38 prelude 38 forecasters predict 38 shaping 38 unprepared 38 supervisor Jody Noiron 38 witnessing 38 digesting 38 clouds darken 38 awaited 38 warily eyeing 38 impatiently awaiting 38 portends 38 hunkering down 38 portending 38 expeced 38 buffetted 37 mull 37 hunkers down 37 boding well 37 anxious 37 coping 37 anticipation 37 fearing 37 portent 37 salt spreaders readied 37 warn 36 Battered 36 ready 36 predicted 36 projecting 36 beckons 36 foreshadows 36 relishing 36 midst 36 Readying 36 heeding warnings 36 droughts melting glaciers 36 patiently await 36 considering 36 Foreshadowing 36 waiting impatiently 36 throes 36 Pummeled 36 worried 36 Joel Garlach Miller 36 forecasters predicting 36 offing 36 grapple 36 Dire predictions 36 keeping watchful eye 35 http:/media#.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/phUSPTA certified tennis 35 grapples 35 blaming 35 burial vaults wrenched 35 foreseeing 35 forecasters predicted 35 intensifies 35 warning 35 lining 35 bodes ill 35 vivid reminders 35 boded ill 35 eagerly waiting 35 stokes fears 35 Facing 35 waging 35 loath 35 treading carefully 35 buoyed 35 courting 35 feared 35 presages 35 endured 35 envisioning 35 Buried beneath 35 CHARLOTTE NC Travelers Cos. 35 outer edges raked 35 Apres moi le 35 struggling 35 Deal averts 34 beleaguered 34 Looming 34 Mild temps 34 provoking 34 forebodes 34 rumor mill churns 34 ringing alarm bells 34 harbingers 34 heralds 34 wary 34 Dawn Eischen spokeswoman 34 Barclays Capital Barclays Wealth 34 anxiously eyeing 34 absorbing 34 teetering 34 walloped 34 eager 34 Expect 34 sowed panic 34 enjoying 34 leveraged buyout loomed 34 WEATHER Rain 34 battered 34 warned 34 cautiously optimistic 34 impending 34 battering 34 fending 34 breathing sighs 34 expect 34 weathers 34 wondering 34 eagerly awaited 34 heavier downpours 34 seemed unrattled 34 Prepare yourselves 33 pummeled 33 roils 33 ratcheted 33 staving off 33 herald 33 dataNEW YORK AP 33 tenterhooks 33 gripped 33 abuzz 33 forebode 33 outlook dims 33 savoring 33 preps 33 risking 33 foretelling 33 mangle migration 33 salivating 33 sends shudders 33 Braving frigid temperatures 33 deluged 33 ramping 33 ratcheting 33 Jonathan Blaes meteorologist 33 embroil 33 Particularly worrisome 33 reacted warmly 33 amid 33 reassessing 33 Dire warnings 33 Predicting 33 bode ill 33 forecasting 33 reacting 33 forewarned 33 Unprepared 33 nears 33 Recession weary 33 loom 33 bellying 33 seething 33 stung 33 eyed warily 33 pushing 33 subjecting 33 jostle 33 AccuWeather predicts 33 fearful 32 Michaels ascends 32 withstanding 32 frantically searching 32 wallops 32 dubbed Snowmageddon 32 embroiled 32 largely unaffected 32 foretaste 32 Hurricane Ike colossal 32 FACED 32 Plummeting temperatures 32 pining 32 stave off 32 urging 32 fever grips 32 reminder 32 unfazed 32 blamed 32 Awaiting 32 Unnerved 32 seeking 32 braved blizzards 32 waited anxiously 32 weary 32 batten down 32 anxiously awaited 32 barest glimmerings 32 Seismologists warn 32 gloom shrouding 32 lookout 32 mood sours 32 jarring reminder 32 Overshadowing 32 Menhenett 32 grappled 32 wringing 32 Sapphire Jason Reitman 32 hurting 32 pinching pennies 32 itching 32 hastier 32 hungering 32 reminding 32 Vleming 32 surest sign 32 hotly debating 32 hunker down 32 portended 32 Futures augured 32 patiently waiting 32 scrutinizing 32 Admist 32 seeing 32 howling windstorms 32 inevitable 32 straining 32 edging perilously 32 priming 32 Gobbler Knob suggesting 32 predictably livid 32 expeted 32 snowstorm barreled 32 avert 32 aquiver 32 Groundhog predicts 32 crimped 32 brewing 32 Strong aftershock rattles 32 imminent 32 flocking 32 cash strapped 32 unsettling 32 Wintery weather 32 cringing 32 orchestrating 32 deadline looms 32 staved off 31 crashing ashore 31 Farmers Almanac predicts 31 Bare bellies 31 Pummelled 31 Heralding 31 expletives frequently undeleted 31 Stocks waver 31 limbered 31 nervously eying 31 bracing tonic 31 Forecasters predict 31 bated breath 31 socked 31 pummels 31 anticipated 31 presaged 31 sparking fears 31 Walloped 31 predict 31 proving remarkably resilient 31 stark reminders 31 whipping oily 31 anxiously 31 numbingly cold 31 Overhanging 31 Mena sirens sounded 31 unnerved 31 buffeting 31 ominous portent 31 hopeful 31 Wintry blast 31 champing 31 Cactus shantytown 31 double whammy 31 baited breath 31 wind chill advisories 31 Galvanized 31 pervasive weariness 31 fending off 31 unpredicatable 31 provocateurs incited 31 busying 31 inching closer 31 nerves frayed 31 psyching 31 averts 31 intensifying 31 Meteorologist Stephen Konarik 31 nervously anticipating 31 spared 31 clobbered 31 Rain soaks 31 enjoying renaissance 31 clamored 31 drenching 31 undeterred 31 Decatur Vincenzo Tortorici 31 faces 31 writes Zulfiqar frets 31 acutely aware 31 Floodwaters recede 31 foreshadowed 31 Herreras settled 31 snow blanketing 31 anxiously awaits 31 Rain dampens 31 slogging 31 Mother Nature caprices 31 exacerbate inundation 31 Stocks zigzag 31 Weathering 31 espite 31 beset 31 tenterhooks awaiting 31 swamped 31 torrential tropical 31 zigzagging downpours 31 Mixed fortunes 31 Bleak outlooks 31 licking 31 spokesman Bob McDavitt 31 averting 31 Straddling risky economic 31 Clock ticks 31 embroils 31 mudslide prone 31 searching 31 seeing thicker globs 31 endure 31 trimming payrolls 31 desertions dismissals retirements 31 Stocks tumble 31 precariously balanced 31 yearn 31 Weather hampers 31 dampens 31 weary Floridians 31 jolted 31 crisis deepens 30 treading cautiously 30 swelters 30 triple whammy 30 Bleak 30 bodes 30 fend 30 ordered mandatory evacuations 30 optimisitic 30 mired 30 gloom deepened 30 Wintry mix 30 Manuel Gallegus reports 30 ex pected 30 insulate 30 Lisa Lochridge spokeswoman 30 rude awakening 30 STOCKS Futures rise 30 Fearing 30 contemplate 30 hurtles toward 30 psyching themselves 30 grim reminder 30 braving 30 prolonged cytopenias 30 overspreading 30 regroups 30 Double whammy 30 aiming 30 enfolding 30 surf advisories 30 ribbons holly wreaths 30 Uncertainty surrounds 30 forecast 30 Flood waters recede 30 Dreading 30 rejoicing 30 stewing 30 Surviving 30 devastatingly vicious 30 gears 30 unaccustomed 30 Glitto 30 imagining 30 convulsive uproar 30 Steeling 30 wettest Julys 30 waiting patiently 30 wintry chill 30 jolting 30 Gloom deepens 30 buoying 30 piled Kwoka plate 30 Skier survives 30 nervously awaited 30 Massive windstorm howls 30 MARKET REPORT Stocks 30 Eyeing 30 refilling reservoirs 30 downpour drenched 30 lawmaker Pat Rabbitte 30 cope 30 snowstorm pummeled 30 wake 30 foretell 30 baring 30 loomed ominously 30 warmer windier 30 warily eyed 30 embroiling 30 STOCKS Futures flat 30 stinging 30 draws nearer 30 scouring 30 Whipsawed 30 resuscitate stagnant 30 Summary Box Wheat 30 heading 30 waits impatiently 30 cautioning 30 Barring miraculous 30 scurrying 30 nervously eyed 30 agog 30 waited nervously 30 subzero readings 30 vent fury 30 Director Ken Palzkill 30 SE Qld 30 Bitterly cold 30 battened down 30 basking 30 Storm wreaks havoc 30 coldest Decembers 30 snowy slushy 30 breathed collective sigh 30 Auckland Coromandel 30 reaping 30 mindful 30 eagerly anticipated 30 asking 30 outlook darkens 30 risked provoking 30 bewailing 30 ponder 30 faced 30 credit crunch bites 30 wreaked destruction 30 prompted outcries 30 frost advisories 30 Pummels Jamaica 30 wakeup call 30 Soaring loonie 30 Forewarned 30 soaking 30 Typhoon Melor churned 30 caught unawares 30 nMeanwhile 30 outlook brightens 30 SMALL MIDCAPS Stocks 30 wallop 30 overreacting 30 unsettled 30 augurs 30 besieged 30 Earthquakes tsunamis 30 Expecting 30 -9 Celsius 30 gathers pace 30 Skvortsov beamed 30 sprains fractures 30 fretted 30 heavy rains walloping 30 Sichuan Ganzi prefecture 30 Storm drenches 30 averted 30 penciling 30 grips 30 Will Hedden 30 flatly denies involvement 30 braved unseasonably 30 deadlines loom 30 Brace 30 probing 30 Climaxing 30 blunting 30 Frigid temps 30 Impossibly melodramatic family 30 Hurricane Ike ravaged 30 lawyer Barbara Quindel 30 banding together 30 treading warily 30 Braces 30 inching toward 30 Lake Tahoe ski resorts 30 buffered 30 pollster Pete Brodnitz 29 Alarm bells ring 29 Kim Brust shoveling 29 beckoning 29 mulls 29 Galena Ill 29 travelers overwhelms underfunded 29 totally unprepared 29 merrymakers gathered 29 Blizzard warnings 29 leaving Gazans stewing 29 fundamentals reassert 29 Frustration mounts 29 colossus roared 29 Somali pirates hauling 29 Stocks fluctuate 29 speedily enacted 29 Scotland Grangemouth refinery 29 woefully unprepared 29 Accumulating snow 29 Plunging temperatures 29 ponying 29 unsettles 29 reconsidering 29 wind whipped 29 narrowly escaping 29 economist Ken Mayland 29 wrought 29 Gregorio Vergara 29 queasy stomachs 29 Teetering 29 Illegal parkers 29 augured 29 floods droughts desertification 29 epochal liberalization 29 toasting 29 storm wallops 29 waits 29 Wintry 29 braved frigid weather 29 Showers thunderstorms 29 Mr McDavitt 29 spooked 29 heatwaves droughts 29 Typhoon weakens 29 Omitt 29 battling 29 Rattled 29 stark reminder 29 Belt tightening 29 keenly aware 29 Mr Dutschke 29 waiting expectantly 29 Bankruptcies skyrocketed 29 Roger Pulwarty 29 lurching 29 braved 29 Prepared 29 hurtling headlong 29 confidently predicting 29 groundhog prediction 29 atwitter 29 sounding alarm bells 29 Huggins glowering 29 Wu Xiaoyi 29 boded well 29 Futures augured modest 29 grandmother Yun Junghee 29 Nail biting 29 rang alarm bells 29 Pandemic flu 29 auguring 29 hungrily eyeing 29 lava oozed 29 aftermath 29 Bob Batcher spokesman 29 massed 29 Layoffs loom 29 fingers crossed 29 FLINT TOWNSHIP WJRT #/#/# 29 Counterintuitively 29 popping champagne corks 29 hinting 29 raged unabated 29 withering criticisms 29 recesion 29 plunging 29 plotting 29 face 29 Crowds braved 29 pillorying insurers 29 Argentines trudged 29 grim 29 braved torrential rain 29 bemoan 29 sanguine 29 Penny pinching 29 COLOGNE Germany Wladimir Klitschko 29 rages 29 breathe collective sigh 29 amping 29 uncertain 29 inoculate 29 Yeon Wook Jung 29 draws nigh 29 narrowly averted 29 FUTURES MOVERS Oil 29 Cyclone Baaz 29 rain drenches 29 sparking 29 Leichardt Oval 29 Risking 29 soaks 29 whammy 29 dread 29 analyst Hemant Shah 29 reacted bullishly 29 7 Paransky 29 Oppressive heat 29 LOOMING 29 glummer 29 Edna Sott 29 TREASURIES Bonds dip 29 busied 29 provokes 29 proving 29 deteriorating Tut mummy 29 boon 29 fraying tempers 29 proposing 29 reveling 29 Meteorologist Christopher Juckins 29 vying 29 saturated catchments 29 faring 29 Warm temps 29 sleet hail 29 foretold 29 Prompting 29 Pouring rain 29 Pandl referring 29 Latam stocks 29 PINK SLIPS 29 locking horns 29 Meteorologists predict 29 prompted 29 plumps 29 WALL STREET Stocks 29 positively giddy 29 councilman Arnie Fielkow 29 tropical cyclone Ului 29 WASHINGTON Buffeted 29 nor'easters howl along 29 scour hillsides desiccated 29 wracking 29 Averting 29 bankruptcies consolidations 29 panicking 29 engulfs 29 Schwibs 29 growing leeriness threatens 29 grossly unprepared 29 heightened alert 29 braved chilly temperatures 29 narrowly averting 29 slog 29 Storms pelt 29 decry 29 cautious spenders 29 demolished Willard Hollon 29 Asturias Cantabria 29 fret 29 Mr Wacher 29 Edouard intensified 29 decrying 29 Accuweather predicts 29 drastically reshaped 29 Clock ticking 29 foretells 29 sharpening 29 sparrow belch 29 brief respite 29 greeted 29 winds buffeting 29 seas droughts floods 29 Buffeted 29 wilting 29 impatiently waiting 29 Euroshares outlook 29 forecasted 29 Sleet freezing 29 hanging torsos coffins 29 Tabi Tolkhel village 29 expressing outrage 29 preoccupies 29 shrivelling 29 Rain drenches 29 bodes well 29 Tough sledding 29 dispiriting 29 Braving inclement weather 29 foreboding 29 remarkably sanguine 29 causing 29 dampened 29 flash floods landslides 29 flour corn starch 29 miser mode 29 Gearing 29 wracked 29 bora wind 29 concerned 29 Muir snowfield 29 wintry weather gripped 29 teeters 29 prompts evacuations 29 evacuating Rockhampton 29 Lewrenson 29 nor'easter pounded 29 punishing 29 eerie rumbling 29 Gustav weakens 29 contining 29 thick fog blanketed 29 Pounded 29 Tension mounts 29 Warily watching 29 Uphill battle 29 jostling 29 Presence Speech 29 unsure 29 Calmer weather 29 risked harming 29 Gird 29 wintry weather 29 distressingly familiar 29 reaching crescendo 28 blizzards thundersnow 28 steady upward trajectory 28 snow blanketed 28 Sandwiched between 28 braved gale force 28 NECN ABC 28 payless paydays 28 relish 28 spells doom 28 YEARENDER 28 responding sluggishly 28 nerves jangled 28 Tropical Storm Ida sloshed 28 Heavy rains triggered 28 Arctic airmass 28 pinching 28 racheted 28 breathlessly awaiting 28 Cut 28 USA KFSN 28 reacted tepidly 28 gale force NW'ly winds 28 buckling 28 blizzard warnings 28 Chris Sisko meteorologist 28 underprepared 28 Hurricane Isabel churned 28 TREASURIES Prices slip 28 NYMEX Crude slips 28 Excitement builds 28 Selena Carlos Gardel 28 TONIGHT Showers 28 ponders 28 Faced 28 Staving off 28 spurred 28 Farmer Almanac predicts 28 strange happenings thundersnow 28 gloomy prognosis 28 Redoubt Volcano eruption 28 suing 28 reluctant 28 hurtles towards 28 Kocet 28 wetter colder 28 stoking fears 28 Metanor Amseco Beaufield 28 cellulite receding hairlines 28 Cooler temps 28 shouldering 28 pink slips drenching 28 SODIC Badrawi 28 forced 28 Flags flapped 28 roiled 28 WARRENSBURG NY 28 hunkering 28 noncombatants surround 28 heaving sighs 28 tightens 28 avoiding 28 Tetsuhisa Hayashi chief 28 slogs 28 northeasterly trek 28 Anthony Minghella Civil War 28 enormous Zocalo plaza 28 lashing 28 staging 28 Chuck Caracozza meteorologist 28 Okla. Ark. 28 marshaling armies 28 twin specters 28 sunnier skies 28 savaged 28 waves droughts floods 28 retrenching 28 WHATCOM COUNTY Wash. 28 Tonga Nuie 28 plumping 28 ravaged 28 braving frigid temperatures 28 cushioned 28 regrouping 28 nearing 28 Jolie wows 28 Impoverished Yemen 28 assuredly paving 28 Saidiya sparking 28 mountain snows melt 28 psyched 28 tightfisted lenders 28 pressed 28 veered northward 28 tighten purse strings 28 Convincing 28 spartan industrialism following 28 torrential rain buffeted 28 boding ill 28 provoked 28 speculating 28 numbing 28 mini heatwave 28 heralded 28 Boosted 28 evoking 28 Bill Dugovich spokesman 28 recession deepens 28 feeblest economies 28 FREEZING temperatures 28 destined 28 Smarting 28 rippling 28 Tempers fray 28 triggering 28 Overshadowed 28 limbers 28 unleashed tidal wave 28 dangers lurk 28 investigating 28 WEATHER Cloudy 28 bumpy ride 28 slated 28 Quidachay consolidated 28 emboldening 28 Andres weakens 28 guardedly optimistic 28 Air 28 Hosepipe ban 28 faded magnificence buckling 28 gloomy predictions 28 unleash barrage 28 expressing sympathy 28 undergoing 28 Withstanding 28 uncomfortably humid 28 Mykytiak 28 swingeing 28 Tight fisted 28 roars echoing 28 needlessly detracted 28 beckon 28 Ruth Wenstrom spokeswoman 28 Ready 28 co incided 28 WILLIAMSVILLE NY WIVB 28 Volcano eruptions 28 steaming mad 28 Google GOOG Intel INTC 28 eagerly anticipate 28 gropes 28 flooded Caviezel 28 TREASURIES Bonds slip 28 stoked 28 lurking ominously 28 unswayed 28 forsees 28 Euroshares outlook lower 28 wrecks havoc 28 reaches crescendo 28 Delia Oliveras 28 Seiichiro Iwasawa chief 28 Chippewa Falls WQOW 28 Haryana Kaithal district 28 dispersed peacefully defusing 28 globe trotting archaeologist 28 Taytay township Rizal 28 storms floods droughts 28 lined 28 Braving icy 28 sectarian bloodshed ebbs 28 boycott unnerves 28 Endured 28 long awaited 28 posied 28 futures augured 28 Reviews Concerts 28 subfreezing nights 28 heartened 28 lengthening queues