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Bernanke testified before Congress in March and July on how the Fed would pare back record stimulus.

Bear's drug, called STX107, inhibits the receptors to pare back the overproduction of proteins associated with Fragile X to a normal range.

By mandate, many traders have to pare back their positions when high volatility means they are exceeding their value-at-risk limits.

Mr Najib has signalled a readiness to pare back the privileges for so-called bumiputras (sons of the soil).

The answer is not for China to pare back its spending on railways, but to direct it more sensibly, analysts say.

Tech companies typically boost capital spending when market conditions are good and pare back when demand is weak.

Russia's offer may be based on the assumption that Japan will have to pare back its reliance on nuclear energy.

Liberal Senators may pare back billions of dollars of tax breaks now claimed by nonprofit hospitals.

All the divisions wanted to pare back the numbers, have the plan come in, and then cruise right past it and get a big bonus.

That prompted many analysts to pare back their earnings estimates for both companies.

The most common advice is to look at your current expenditures and see where you can pare back.

Congress would probably pare back whatever I proposed anyway.

Nor is it just the banks who are having to pare back.

Underscoring the trend, they are shopping for more office space in the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong while others pare back.