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What does HP stand for?

Holding Pattern


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering the standard for smog and may make them more stringent, the states are in a holding pattern, DNR spokeswoman Renee Bungart said.
We sat in a holding pattern for six months waiting for the attorney general's decision.
NPC would be the majority partner in the proposed joint venture while issues such as project location, initial capital base and equity holding pattern would be sorted out in due course.
According to the researchers, once they evolved the optimal size and shape for catching fish - roughly 20 million years ago - natural selection seems to have kept them in an evolutionary holding pattern.
area suppliers are in a holding pattern pending the outcome.
We're waiting in a holding pattern," said Parry Sound's director of Economic Development and Leisure Services Lynn Middaugh.
However, he explained that because businesses don't usually rush to file for bankruptcy as soon as the economy turns south, this is a "lagging indicator", meaning the economy might have turned around before the numbers reflect it Despite these troubling indicators, Roberts said the results of CSUN's annual Economic Forecast Survey of Valley Businesses showed a positive outlook, and reflected the holding pattern in the economy.
I feel a great psychic force sucking us into an elliptical holding pattern this month This holding pattern continues throughoutthe month of May as we attempt to escape the outer spiral arms of a whirlpool trying to suck us under I feel a great psychic force sucking us into an elliptical holding pattern this month.

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