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Now, there are four key levers that we must pull.

"You have to look at the key levers and drivers of your business," she says.

The demand has been a rallying cry for Palestinians and a key lever of their diplomacy.

The sound produced with no key levers pressed is the nominal pitch of the instrument.

All keys except one are normally closed, opening only when a finger presses the associated key lever.

The generals, humbled by defeat in the Falklands, still held key levers of power.

Often, these were simple "strap" keys in which a bend in the key lever provided the key's spring action.

The FRANK service is a key lever to deliver the 2010 government drug strategy.

The Stockholm Programme, which is largely based on Commission input and proposals, will be a key lever to make this happen.

Yet in all of these areas, the key levers of power - appointing regional governors and military commanders - remain firmly in Beijing's hand.

A rather complex arrangement of key levers (see keyboard diagram above) permits both halves of the split keys to control their own jacks.

The key levers are pine, rack-guided at the rear, with wooden tongues, and there is a three-rail keyframe.

He controls all the key levers of government from No10, as chief executive it is his primary task to spot trouble coming up and to cope accordingly.

Yet it is equally bound by the power-sharing deals it made last spring with a Communist Party that still commands key levers of government.

Later he focused on methods for fine-turning the control of the money supply, the Federal Government's key lever in trying to contain inflation and smooth the business cycle.

The old empire had employed two key levers of central power - large-scale taxation, two-thirds of which was then spent on maintaining the second lever, a large professional army.

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein welcomed 1,200 new parent coordinators yesterday, saying they were taking on "one of the key levers for change" in an overhauled school system.

The Federal Reserve increased by a half-point two important short-term lending rates it controls, placing its key lever over the economy at 6 percent, double the level of a year ago.

I would remind the House that expanded access to essential vaccines is a key lever to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4: a two-thirds reduction in child mortality by 2015.

While taking away millions from its budget, the law did leave the Board of Education a key lever over the councils: The board can close a school if a council fails in its duties.

The delegation - which because of population shifts is being cut by three seats, more than any other in the country - is losing almost 150 years in seniority, a key lever in prying loose Federal money.

This is where the Serbian leader called out Yugoslav Army tanks and used tear gas eight years ago to put down a violent demonstration against state-controlled television, the key lever in his control of public opinion.

They described his delay in accepting the presidential election results - not until a mass popular revolt in Belgrade resulted in the demonstrators' seizing Parliament as well as a key lever of power, state television - as "unthinkable behavior."

As the federal Parliament burned and tear gas wafted through chaotic streets, vast throngs of Serbs wrested their capital and key levers of power away from Slobodan Milosevic today, bringing his 13-year reign to the edge of collapse.

Based on the premise that the hand can barely stretch more than a 9th on the piano, and that the same scale is fingered differently in each key, Jankó's new keyboard had two interlocking 'manuals' with three touch-points for each key lever.