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One lone U.S. senator was able to stop the gravy-train long enough to attract attention and for the real message to leak out.
Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army 2010
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All these political party's do is vie for the government gravy-train jobs; there's not even a distinguishable manifesto between them.
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Hagel is an idiot who is a Democrat trying to gravy-train off the Republian party's strength in Nebraska.
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With months and months of unsettled CDS trades, and with the unstoppable 300 m.p.h. gravy-train steaming forward, Timothy Geithner, our current Secretary of the United States Treasury, just stood there like a bird watcher on the side of tracks, doing absolutely nothing about it.
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The backwoods native, who is parlaying a career out of a profanity-laced You Tube rant, rode the ‘Leave Britney Alone!’ gravy-train to a Thursday afternoon appearance on Maury.
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Mr. Shaidle's just angry he didn't think of putting his chronically-ill civil marriage partner on the Shona Holmes circuit before that gravy-train left the station.
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Second, Wall Street needs to recognize that the gravy-train of the '80s and' 90s is over.
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Supposedly there's a lot of higher-level officers on the take in Iraq and Obama is threatening to take their gravy-train away.
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It was a nice gravy-train to be riding on and had to be protected.
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Although I accept I am being a little melodramatic I do believe the whole Gaelic language mafia is just a gravy-train to get subsidies for a language that would otherwise wither; I really don; t see why my taxes should be used to bolster it.
Skye No More Jeff 2007
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