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  • This is how big-spending bills that everyone always decries in public always manage to pass with just enough votes.

    Welcome, Senate Conservatives Jim DeMint 2010

  • Mr. Silver said it will produce more competitive balance, giving big-spending teams less of an advantage in free agency—though he conceded the final deal will not be the one the owners sought.

    NBA, Players Reach Tentative Agreement Kevin Clark 2011

  • SEOUL—South Korean government leaders are trying to tamp down talk of major economic changes even as the country's politicians, jockeying for attention in an election year, tout big-spending ideas that could threaten long-term fiscal health.

    Election Spurs Spending Talk in South Korea Evan Ramstad 2012

  • Marler's in tune for Quins Harlequins, celebrating their second Premiership success in eight days after the 23-12 victory over Newcastle, hope their lock George Robson, will return for his first game of the season next Sunday, the difficult Amlin Challenge Cup trip to big-spending Bayonne.

    Northampton want Stephen Myler and Shane Geraghty to sign new deals Paul Rees 2010

  • South Korean leaders are trying to tamp down talk of major economic changes even as the country's politicians tout big-spending ideas.

    What's News— 2012

  • Fairly quickly after the wedding, it became obvious that President Obama was the big-spending socialized medicine enthusiast our intuition told us he was.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • Cole was a sprightly pianist who, at this point, had not sung professionally, but legend has it that a big-spending client drunkenly badgered him to sing.

    Nat King Cole: the reluctant vocalist 2011

  • "And you voted out the big-spending politicians, and you put in their place great men and women with a commitment to follow our Constitution and cut the size of government," she stated.

    Tea Party Keeps Close Eye on Republicans 2011

  • But everyone mentioned in the article was a big-spending, foreign-interventionist, privacy-rights bashing, free-choice despising, extremist left-wing so-called Neocon.

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry pulled out of conservative straw poll 2009

  • O'Donnell is criticizing the visit, saying it shows Coons would be a big-spending "rubber stamp" for the president's policies.

    Obama, Biden Stump In Delaware For Democratic Senate Candidate Taking On Christine O'Donnell The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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