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  • noun Plural form of Hellhole.

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Examples

  • "Hellholes" report notes in its executive summary, "Not coincidentally, the local or state economies in many of these 'Hellholes' jurisdictions have suffered more than most during the latest recession."

    Latest Articles 2009

  • "Hellholes" report notes in its executive summary, "Not coincidentally, the local or state economies in many of these 'Hellholes' jurisdictions have suffered more than most during the latest recession."

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

  • The suit arrived too late for this year's report by the American Tort Reform Association o f the nation's top "Judicial Hellholes," in which California placed second, behind top-ranked Philadelphia.

    A Lawyer's Paradise 2010

  • But the good folks of Madison County, Ill., will take what they can get from the American Tort Reform Association, which has for the past half decade deemed the rural locale as one of its top "Judicial Hellholes" -- i.e., havens for plaintiffs lawyers and horrors for big business.

    Bingham Generates Buzz 2007

  • The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world Hellholes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.

    Think Progress » 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Redux: Malkin Argues That Qana Was An Inside Job 2006

  • Even Alabama, long among the worst of the Hellholes and even now on the borderline Hellholes "Watch List," made noticeable economic strides earlier this decade that seemed to coincide exactly with the success of some moderate tort reforms.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

  • Even Alabama, long among the worst of the Hellholes and even now on the borderline Hellholes "Watch List," made noticeable economic strides earlier this decade that seemed to coincide exactly with the success of some moderate tort reforms.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • A new report on "Judicial Hellholes" arrives just in time, albeit indirectly, to remind Congress that no health-system changes can qualify as real "reform" if they don't include serious lawsuit reforms as well.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • ATRA is the group that annually ranks West Virginia as one of the nation's "Judicial Hellholes"

    West Virginia Record 2009

  • A new report on "Judicial Hellholes" arrives just in time, albeit indirectly, to remind Congress that no health-system changes can qualify as real "reform" if they don't include serious lawsuit reforms as well.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

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