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Rep. Kevin Brady's bill, the Cut Unsustainable and Top-heavy Spending, or CUTS Act, is the first detailed series of spending proposals introduced in the GOP-controlled House that target government operations and the federal workforce.
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Rep. Kevin Brady's bill, the Cut Unsustainable and Top-heavy Spending CUTS Act is the first detailed series of spending proposals introduced in the GOP-controlled House that targets government operations and the federal workforce...
Wonkbook: NCLB reform coming; Boehner opposes new gun laws; John Kerry's speech; oil spill recommendations Ezra Klein 2011
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Top-heavy sunflowers droop, their leaves baked golden by the August sun.
Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010
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Top-heavy sunflowers droop, their leaves baked golden by the August sun.
Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010
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Top-heavy with colonels to begin with, the army has swollen mightily in recent years, since the price of a series of half-effective peace accords has been its absorption of an array of predatory warlords and their followers.
Rape of the Congo Hochschild, Adam 2009
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Top-heavy with great reporting, mighty skimpy in the plot department, it prompts the thought that invariably dogs a reader working his way through Wolfe's enormous novels: that inside these fat fictions is a thin and nimble reporter struggling to get out.
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Top-heavy with her burden, Lizbeth managed awkwardly on the bones.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007
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Top-heavy because they lacked ballast as they were waiting to fuel, three destroyers turned turtle and vanished, taking with them almost 800 men.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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Top-heavy because they lacked ballast as they were waiting to fuel, three destroyers turned turtle and vanished, taking with them almost 800 men.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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Top-heavy characters would bobble along awkwardly, creatures with branching networks of a dozen legs would learn to walk, and animations for fighting and eating would be generated on the fly.
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