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It costs too much just when we can't even afford everything the government has already bought and comitted to ... it raises the cost of health care ... and it got this far only because of hundreds of millions of dollars in payola to Democratic hold-outs.
Public option may be dropped from final health care bill 2009
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HOW BOEHNER DID IT - Many of the hold-outs were convinced by the new provision on the Balanced Budget Amendment, which makes BBA passage required to raise the debt ceiling and makes the bill even more utterly un-passable in the Senate.
HUFFPOST HILL.. Boehner Bill Passes Arthur Delaney 2011
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We already went that route in the 1990s -- and we got "free trade", NAFTA, asset bubbles, two immoral wars (it is true, I may be one of the few hold-outs left that does not remember the Clinton Administration in a fond way).
Jonathan Tasini: A Lack of Seriousness Jonathan Tasini 2010
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So for you XP hold-outs, IE8 will be the last browser you ever get from Microsoft.
6 things we like about Internet Explorer 9 beta (and six not so much) Howard Wen 2010
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We already went that route in the 1990s -- and we got "free trade", NAFTA, asset bubbles, two immoral wars (it is true, I may be one of the few hold-outs left that does not remember the Clinton Administration in a fond way).
Jonathan Tasini: A Lack of Seriousness Jonathan Tasini 2010
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We already went that route in the 1990s -- and we got "free trade", NAFTA, asset bubbles, two immoral wars (it is true, I may be one of the few hold-outs left that does not remember the Clinton Administration in a fond way).
Jonathan Tasini: A Lack of Seriousness Jonathan Tasini 2010
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But it is the case that most graphic artists find themselves in a job market where there is no support for hold-outs.
Cat Weaver: The Panda Appropriations -- Part 3: Playing the Courts Cat Weaver 2011
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Other than a few hold-outs, such as Stephen Krashen, most in the reading field would agree that this debate has been largely settled.
Motivation for Learning Reading Skill « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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But it is the case that most graphic artists find themselves in a job market where there is no support for hold-outs.
Cat Weaver: The Panda Appropriations -- Part 3: Playing the Courts Cat Weaver 2011
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We already went that route in the 1990s -- and we got "free trade", NAFTA, asset bubbles, two immoral wars (it is true, I may be one of the few hold-outs left that does not remember the Clinton Administration in a fond way).
Jonathan Tasini: A Lack of Seriousness Jonathan Tasini 2010
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