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That’s because of a slowdown in demand amid concerns about further economic pain, which would lessen the need for oil, and rising production quotas from the world’s top oil-producing countries since this spring.

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Many distributors are trying to keep programming costs down in an effort to lessen the financial blow of cord-cutting.

“This is not an American withdrawal from Europe or a signal of lessened commitment to NATO,” the European Command said in a statement.

Coaches have to be careful with two-way players because you don’t want to place too much of a burden on them at practices, something that might lessen or affect one of their skills.

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Tesla is just one of several companies that are moving to lessen their reliance on Nvidia.

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