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"We weren't allowed out of the cell at all – no exercise hour, no reading, no music, no nothing. And it was damp and underground."

That is damping bets that there will be another rate increase this year, though consumer inflation has stayed well above the BOJ’s 2% target this year, bolstering the case for tighter monetary policy.

I didn’t want to descend into a dark, damp, claustrophobic space.

And it sets out measures to make it easier for social housing tenants to have damp and mould in their homes fixed.

It succeeded, at the very least, in damping down the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union enough that it never escalated into civilization-ending apocalypse.