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  • To its credit, Boeing has been a foot-dragger in the upgrade cycle.

    Next, an Aircraft Bubble? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

  • President Obamas secretary of energy, Dr. Steven Chu, a 1997 Nobel laureate in physics, is a global warming advocate openly hostile to the use of coal and a foot-dragger on expanding nuclear power.81

    Liberty and Tyranny Mark R. Levin 2009

  • President Obamas secretary of energy, Dr. Steven Chu, a 1997 Nobel laureate in physics, is a global warming advocate openly hostile to the use of coal and a foot-dragger on expanding nuclear power.81

    Liberty and Tyranny Mark R. Levin 2009

  • On one key issue after another, from the Middle East to North Korea to the Department of Homeland Security, Bush has proven himself to be a dawdler, a foot-dragger who can\'t make fundamental choices or press his team to follow his commands.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: He's No Decider, He's a Ditherer 2008

  • On one key issue after another, from the Middle East to North Korea to the Department of Homeland Security, Bush has proven himself to be a dawdler, a foot-dragger who can't make fundamental choices or press his team to follow his commands.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: He's No Decider, He's a Ditherer 2008

  • The foot-dragger is finally heading to the area for a visit but so far the plan is to not land in New Orleans, but to just fly over the area.

    09/02/2005 2005

  • My money says the 45-day seal is just a foot-dragger, to maximize airplay of the “See?

    Firedoglake » Why All the Fuss? 2006

  • Now, sometimes I'm accused of being a foot-dragger, not wanting to go along with the force.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2004 2004

  • It was no fun nagging a twenty-something-year-old foot-dragger upon whom, it had become thunderously obvious, they were having no effect.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • If Mr. Kennedy was reckless abroad, he was a foot-dragger at home.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEET HEER 2011

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