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There's not much the typical American can do about sky-high unemployment, the massive national debt, or a flat-lining economy.
Preventing A Third World America: How YOU Can Stop America's Decline The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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There's not much the typical American can do about sky-high unemployment, the massive national debt, or a flat-lining economy.
Preventing A Third World America: How YOU Can Stop America's Decline The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Around 12,500 people are working on the Olympic Park in an economy that has been flat-lining.
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There's not much the typical American can do about sky-high unemployment, the massive national debt, or a flat-lining economy.
Preventing A Third World America: How YOU Can Stop America's Decline US News 2010
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It's ironic, I suppose, in the sense that Ms. Schiavo's brain waves and those of the people who wanted to keep her alive were functioning on the same flat-lining level.
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Usually seen as a near-surface technique, flat-lining allows you to reach moderate depths by trolling jigs or diving crankbaits.
Four Ways to Troll for Trout, Salmon, Crappies, Walleyes, and Northern Pike 2009
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But how on earth will we achieve this while development budgets in the US and Europe are flat-lining and even being cut?
Ben Plumley: HIV/AIDS Is Still Everyone's Business Ben Plumley 2011
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But how on earth will we achieve this while development budgets in the US and Europe are flat-lining and even being cut?
Ben Plumley: HIV/AIDS Is Still Everyone's Business Ben Plumley 2011
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Now, of course, just flat-lining spending year after year can be a cut of some magnitude.
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Spending on transportation, for example, typically shows year-on-year growth of 5% at this point in a recovery; this time, it is basically flat-lining.
How Retail Sales Mask Services Slowdown Kelly Evans 2011
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