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Keating, speaking about the economic reforms that he authored in Australia -- renovations which sheltered the nation from the current financial collapse -- explained: One thing I tried to do here was to have a completely open conversation with the community here about Australia's dire economic prospects as a rust-bucket industrial economy tucked away in the bottom of the southern hemisphere.
Brian Till: The Conversation to Lead Brian Till 2011
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Keating, speaking about the economic reforms that he authored in Australia -- renovations which sheltered the nation from the current financial collapse -- explained: One thing I tried to do here was to have a completely open conversation with the community here about Australia's dire economic prospects as a rust-bucket industrial economy tucked away in the bottom of the southern hemisphere.
Brian Till: The Conversation to Lead Brian Till 2011
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Its rust-bucket poster child is now the ancient ...
Harvey Wasserman: Yet Another $50 Billion for Rust-Bucket Nukes? 2009
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Its rust-bucket poster child is now the ancient ...
Harvey Wasserman: Yet Another $50 Billion for Rust-Bucket Nukes? 2009
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It might also cause drivers to drive right by the hulking rust-bucket without devoting a thought to stopping.
The Navy Has a Top-Secret Vessel It Wants to Put on Display 2009
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Third option is that Cavil sends extra models of himself and the 4s and 5s to finish the old rust-bucket off for the sheer joy of it.
Archive 2009-03-01 radii 2009
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Its rust-bucket poster child is now the ancient clunker at Oyster Creek, whose visible New Jersey rust and advanced radioactive decay are A-OK with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which just gave it a twenty-year license extension.
Harvey Wasserman: Yet Another $50 Billion for Rust-Bucket Nukes? 2009
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Third option is that Cavil sends extra models of himself and the 4s and 5s to finish the old rust-bucket off for the sheer joy of it.
VARIANTS: FINALE SPOILERS & SPECULATION radii 2009
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The music, the Depression-era culture, the rust-bucket boat … it [...]
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The music, the Depression-era culture, the rust-bucket boat … it was spot on.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » ANALYSIS: KING KONG, Part 2 2006
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