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Coalition is mixing it up and breaking it down with creative tactics and brass-tacks grassroots organizing.
Whit Jones: The Youth Clean Energy Vote Is Showing the Leadership It's Demanding Whit Jones 2010
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Coalition is mixing it up and breaking it down with creative tactics and brass-tacks grassroots organizing.
Whit Jones: The Youth Clean Energy Vote Is Showing the Leadership It's Demanding Whit Jones 2010
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He fears for such brass-tacks stuff as funding for childcare: "Ensuring that people aren't doing asylum interviews with four kids round their feet."
Spending review 2010: living with the cuts John Harris 2010
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In brass-tacks terms, this all seems to be very good news for people who make helicopters.
Matthew Yglesias » Your 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review 2010
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Coalition is mixing it up and breaking it down with creative tactics and brass-tacks grassroots organizing.
Whit Jones: The Youth Clean Energy Vote Is Showing the Leadership It's Demanding Whit Jones 2010
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Coalition is mixing it up and breaking it down with creative tactics and brass-tacks grassroots organizing.
Whit Jones: The Youth Clean Energy Vote Is Showing the Leadership It's Demanding Whit Jones 2010
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If you want to get that brass-tacks technical, then “a woman got upset about the baby she was carrying and killed the child.”
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So much of it is brass-tacks rather than fancy schmancy.
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Let Obama be the vision guy; Bloomberg could be the brass-tacks administrator.
Blogtalk: The Bloomberg Buzz - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Let Obama be the vision guy; Bloomberg could be the brass-tacks administrator.
Blogtalk: The Bloomberg Buzz - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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