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  • A lot of American men were caught off-balance in this transition.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • A lot of American men were caught off-balance in this transition.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • A lot of American men were caught off-balance in this transition.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • It was fresh and it kept you off-balance, not knowing what was going to happen.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Most played-out pop-culture entities of all time? | EW.com 2009

  • I have to admit at first I thought he was one of the anti - folks trying to get an off-balance response from somebody.

    Morality of the kill 2009

  • The £700 billion of national debt excludes PFI, say £100 billion and about the same again in various other off-balance sheet wheezes such as Network Rail's debt and private sector pension protection.

    We are well and truly screwed Not a sheep 2009

  • Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's see these deals as off-balance sheet debt.

    Chesapeake Nears $3.4 Billion in Deals Angel Gonzalez 2011

  • More deeply, if promised Social Security benefits are an "off-balance sheet" liability that will simply be replaced with an on-balance sheet liability, isn't the stream of payroll taxes an "off-balance sheet" asset?

    Social Security Myths, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • While Egan Jones previously said it believes Jefferies's leverage is too high, Fitch projects that the firm's 13.1 adjusted leverage ratio is "stable" and in line with peers, and that Jefferies "doesn't engage in any off-balance sheet funding transactions that would alter its view on the firm's leverage."

    Fitch Finds Jefferies Has 'Sufficient Liquidity' Brett Philbin 2011

  • I have to admit at first I thought he was one of the anti - folks trying to get an off-balance response from somebody.

    Morality of the kill 2009

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