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1. The government chose several administrative measures to chill the fever in some industrial sectors, but refrained from raising interest rates.

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2. Although many recruiters refrained from openly demanding high academic credentials at this year's job fairs, what they really want remains to be seen.

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3. They also refrained from naming Japan as the culprit for instigating the latest threat of global economic warfare.

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4. Officials from China to South Korea have refrained from raising rates in recent weeks to gauge whether slowing economic growth will dissipate price pressures.

5. That would eat into inventories tracked by the Shanghai exchange, provided the State Reserve Bureau refrained from selling metal into the market.

6. But the United States cannot afford to alienate the Shiite community, which has generally refrained from attacks on coalition forces.

7. Even those who usually refrained from being judgmental could not help jumping in the fray.

8. It refrained from hastily putting in place huge stimulus measures like in 2008, when fears of huge job losses prompted the government to roll out massive investment plans.

9. The Pentagon has refrained from making estimates of Iraqi dead in either the 1991 Gulf War or the latest conflict.

10. It has reduced interest rates and the reserve requirement ratio for lenders twice this year, but has refrained from further cuts since July.