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  • How do you compare the impact of one tweet from Ashton Kutcher (3.3 million followers) plugging President Obama's "Health Insurance Reality Check" site against conservatives popularizing the #handsoff tag to highlight their opposition to health care reform?

    The Politics of Twitter Sifry, Micah L. 2009

  • How do you compare the impact of one tweet from Ashton Kutcher (3.3 million followers) plugging President Obama's "Health Insurance Reality Check" site against conservatives popularizing the #handsoff tag to highlight their opposition to health care reform?

    The Politics of Twitter 2009

  • MAS was handsoff according to State Dept, so until they change their stance, military won't touch him.

    Sound Politics: Al-Sadr Needs To Be Dispatched 2006

  • The third element in this new-look approach is the Banker Plan, which signals a break with Washington's former handsoff policy towards the international debt problem and stresses America's interest in its lasting and constructive solution, especially with regard to Latin America.

    Eurosclerosis: Fact or Fiction? 1985

  • The key applications are HybSelect, febit's innovative DNA capture method for Next-Generation-Sequencing, and handsoff, amplification free microRNA profiling.

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox 2009

  • Targeted and well timed rumors or strategic statements, combined with extraordinary largess from the government and the usual handsoff seenoevil, hearnoevil, smellnoevil approach from regulators, not to mention trillons of taxpayer dollars redistributed into a single sector - and select speculators drive up stock prices in accelerated velocities, proclaiming the end of the bottom or a return of the bulls.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • Targeted and well timed rumors or strategic statements, combined with extraordinary largess from the government and the usual handsoff seenoevil, hearnoevil, smellnoevil approach from regulators, not to mention trillons of taxpayer dollars redistributed into a single sector - and select speculators drive up stock prices in accelerated velocities, proclaiming the end of the bottom or a return of the bulls.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • Targeted and well timed rumors or strategic statements, combined with extraordinary largess from the government and the usual handsoff seenoevil, hearnoevil, smellnoevil approach from regulators, not to mention trillons of taxpayer dollars redistributed into a single sector - and select speculators drive up stock prices in accelerated velocities, proclaiming the end of the bottom or a return of the bulls.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • The people were stupid, the bankers were greedy and retarded and the goverment should have maintained a handsoff policy.

    Subzero Blue Sand Monkey 2008

  • I HATE the spin job McMurry’s scurrilous “handsoff.org” is doing

    Firedoglake » Light ‘Em Up on Net Neutrality 2006

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  • Forced into a single word as a Twitter hashtag, this should really be the phrase "hands off", or at very least hyphenated as a modifier (he took a hands-off approach to copyediting).

    March 16, 2010