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  • Hollywood Studios Are Still "Dawdling" About Digital Strategies

    Beet.TV 2009

  • Dawdling isn't a good option: Ratings agencies have said the U.K. risks losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating if it doesn't start taking concrete steps immediately to solve its fiscal problems.

    Tories Face Political, Fiscal Hurdles 2010

  • Dawdling is the best part of life,” says my grandmother.

    Pies & Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick 2010

  • Dawdling, of course, just confirms the view of the rest of the world, especially among Muslims, that Obama is not the principled liberal they were led to expect, that he is afraid to make a clean breast of the past atrocities, that he is merely a politically correct Bush lite.

    Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib: Action, Cut! 2009

  • Dawdling can only hurt, especially if you've been fired or decided to move to another company.

    How Can A CEO Bow Out Gracefully? 2009

  • Dawdling over my preparations to put off the moment when I would have to start rowing again, I carefully pulled on my kangaroo-skin gloves and tightened the Velcro straps across the backs of my hands.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Dawdling over my preparations to put off the moment when I would have to start rowing again, I carefully pulled on my kangaroo-skin gloves and tightened the Velcro straps across the backs of my hands.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Dawdling people build spaces for time-driven people to 'accomplish' little tasks.

    In Montana: Film, On the Farm Fresca 2009

  • Not a word I'd use for John McCain; Dawdling, infirm, angry, pandering and on the verge of traitorous with this pick, but not strong.

    Charles Karel Bouley: Palin: An American Insult 2008

  • Dawdling bidders When is a takeover bid not a bid?

    Olivant Plan on Northern Rock 2007

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