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  • Summers subsequently laid out those laws as the three "- ations": privatization, stabilization and liberalization.

    Words of wisdom from Naomi Klein?? 2009

  • Summers subsequently laid out those laws as the three "- ations": privatization, stabilization and liberalization.

    Vote Out Larry Summers 2009

  • And she loved me, I know, for the evening before I left for my distant home I told her of my love and devotion, my adoration and aspiration and admiration and all other "ations," and the palpitating lace on her bosom told me how fast her heart was beating, and I gently took her soft hand in mine and drew her head upon my manly shoulder and kissed her.

    Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

  • The aggregate economy involves so many interrelations, permutations, combinations, interpolations, extrapolations, and other "ations" of inputs and outputs and wants and desires that arriving at a meaningful measure of an entire system or a general level of anything is as likely as Hollywood accurately depicting an entrepreneur.

    Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) 2010

  • Summers subsequently laid out those laws as the three "- ations": privatization, stabilization and liberalization.

    unknown title 2009

  • And while I realize that “Trials and Tribble-ations”, another great ep, is here to bookend “Trouble with Tribbles”, it already made it to the Time Travel set and seems superfluous here.

    10 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

  • At the center of the investigation are expert-network firms that pair up investors such as hedge funds with industry managers who can provide consult ations on trends or specific products, technologies or treatments.

    Hedge Funds Extend Gains, but Insider Probe Swirls Steve Eder 2011

  • Congratul; ations people for shooting yourself in the foot!

    Aide: Obama 'can't prevent employers from dropping coverage' 2009

  • I am right there with you in loving Trials and Tibble-ations and The Visitor.

    Favorite Star Trek Episodes – Part 2 2009

  • And while I realize that “Trials and Tribble-ations”, another great ep, is here to bookend “Trouble with Tribbles”, it already made it to the Time Travel set and seems superfluous here.

    DVD Reviews – Star Trek Fan Collective Series 2009

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