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  • Remember where they took the % of every Dollar? dYeh Well, the RAT is out of the BAG.

    Think Progress » More McCain Attacks: Murtha ‘Sentimental,’ ‘Never Been a Big Thinker’ 2005

  • I just watched Delon in TO KILL A RAT aka DEATH OF A CORRUPT MAN, a terrific slice of mid-70s international thrillerdom with Delon mixed up in the deaths of corrupt government officials, a secret diary, blackmail, hot babes, and the great Klaus Kinski as a global powerbroker.

    DVD of the Week: Alain Delon - Five Film Collection 2008

  • Having said all of that, I truly believe that should the Reform-Alliance-Tories aka RAT - what an astonishingly appropriate acronym manage to win a majority it will be just as Shan and Phyl have previously pointed out - not because people are voting "for" them but because people are voting "against" the Liberals.

    Hey, Hive Mind Rogers 2006

  • The RAT is a test of "convergent thinking," since the subject has to recognize a single connection between three very different words.

    Ars Technica Kate Shaw 2012

  • Except of course the few amoungst them that are known as RAT'S, people working with management to achieve any goal management wants all with disregard for their fellow union worker's and the outcome of their behind closed door's assistance, and look only toward themselve's as being "someone special" If the mills in these town's have these people I hope you can remove them as it is damaging to the future of your mill's.

    BangorDailyNews.com > News 2009

  • The RAT is the first of its type at a day-use trailhead in the Bighorn Forest, which is the second forest in the state to implement these fees.

    NewWest.Net All Headlines 2009

  • Before Mr Grafton joined the United States armed services, he wrote two books titled THE RAT BEGAN TO GNAW THE ROPE and THE ROPE BEGAN TO HANG THE BUTCHER.

    In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864

  • I dunno if it will ever come out or anything but Wiley has a more grime orintated album in the works called RAT or something some maybe it will appear on that. jimitheexploder | 14 Jan '09, 18: 04 | Reply | X thx jimitheresearcher

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

  • "the Reform-Alliance-Tories aka RAT - what an astonishingly appropriate acronym" Remember, when Reform were orriginally looking for a new name, they chose the Conservative Reform Alliance Party of Canada...

    Hey, Hive Mind Rogers 2006

  • "Ritual abuse-torture" (sometimes called "RAT") is defined as "is one form of non-state actor torture and is about pedophilic parents, families, guardians, and like-minded adults who abuse, torture, and traffic children using organizing ritualisms."

    OpEdNews - Diary: Ritual abuse-torture 2009

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