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"In 1970 the State Water Resources Control Board 'backburnered' it because of a slow-down in southern California's population growth," Kier said last Monday, sitting by a window in his Blue Lake house with a view to a small greenbelt where autumn-red poison oak laced the trees and a birdfeeder hung, busy with juncos.
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"In 1970 the State Water Resources Control Board 'backburnered' it because of a slow-down in southern California's population growth," Kier said last Monday, sitting by a window in his Blue Lake house with a view to a small greenbelt where autumn-red poison oak laced the trees and a birdfeeder hung, busy with juncos.
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Tarantino admitted that he actually has 40 pages of an "Inglourious" prequel already written, but it's backburnered for now.
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The story in Evolve was a long backburnered idea I had, which I was not even sure I could write.
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Mentoring is completely backburnered in favor of $$$$$$.
Money Doesn't Grow on Blueberry Bushes Candid Engineer 2008
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And I had to share it with you, because I haven't inflicted Grade-A WTF on you guys for a while and I still haven't finished my review of that men's adventure novel I've had backburnered.
worst. nipple erection. ever. hradzka 2010
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Whedon also confirmed that his other horror fantasy project titled Goners has been backburnered by Universal, although he says he "still [has] hope for it."
Details Revealed on Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods « FirstShowing.net 2008
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'An Incredible Flap' In a season of dreams deferred, some of Carter's own were slimmed down or backburnered.
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I would love to see a Bridge movie or TV show – one of my backburnered projects is to knock up a screenplay for Under the Amoral Bridge in case I ever get approached.
Interview with Gary A. Ballard (Interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo) Cindy 2009
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Brown is gone and Mike Chernoff, the Secretary of Homeland Defense, has been backburnered but the hits keep on coming and they are bruising Mr. Bush's poll numbers.
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