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Examples
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The waste disposal bottle-neck by itself will shut down anything more than token development.
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You think she won't take a broken bottle-neck to that little beauty-queen's face when it comes down to that?
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Acme Blindfolds & Blindsides. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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I don't believe such jobs are being created, (as I said, well-paying jobs are in short supply) but during an economic expansion such as we enjoyed during Clinton's term, such jobs are created when the bottle-neck to growth is people with certain skillsets.
Overspending and Obesity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You think she won't take a broken bottle-neck to that little beauty-queen's face when it comes down to that?
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Acme Blindfolds & Blindsides. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Service over, we flocked down the central aisle into an immediate bottle-neck.
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You think she won't take a broken bottle-neck to that little beauty-queen's face when it comes down to that?
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Acme Blindfolds & Blindsides. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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It wasn't unusual back then for the crowds to feel the squeeze on that staircase – there was always a bit of a bottle-neck at the bottom of it, and the crowds often had to stop.
'I was lucky to escape Ibrox disaster unharmed,' says Walter Smith 2010
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Hasn't he been saying for a year now that he wants to get rid of the partisanship, the bottle-neck, the gridlock in Congress?
Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview 2009
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Hasn't he been saying for a year now that he wants to get rid of the partisanship, the bottle-neck, the gridlock in Congress?
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview 2009
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I can touch-type but was not allowed to because of Force edict; the typist controlled a bottle-neck of bureaucracy and so weilded immense power in proportion to status.
A Fire Raging in Islington Newmania 2007
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