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  • Ferals, also called back-door kitties and community cats, are unsocialized and can't adjust to life in a home.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • Such cases are recent examples of the use of "discretion," Napolitano said -- an idea some critics have characterized as a back-door amnesty program aimed at skirting the nation's immigration laws.

    CNN.com 2011

  • Liquidity operations by the European Central Bank to support commercial banks - which some have called a back-door version of quantitative easing - has boosted demand at recent debt auctions by some of the other countries under the microscope.

    MarketWatch.com - Software Industry News 2012

  • SEC commissioner Luis Aguilar waves warning flags about the growing incidence of private companies merging with shell companies as a means of going public - so-called back-door listings.

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011

  • The more independent minor league owners initially bucked the back-door increase in charges for their ticketing that the owners were taking out of their pockets, but jeopardizing the relationship which brings the players, trainers, and coaches delivered to their doors in the farm system at virtually no cost is a powerful disincentive to complaining about it.

    Brian Ross: Mets Money Mishap May Make MLB a Monopoly After All Brian Ross 2011

  • The more independent minor league owners initially bucked the back-door increase in charges for their ticketing that the owners were taking out of their pockets, but jeopardizing the relationship which brings the players, trainers, and coaches delivered to their doors in the farm system at virtually no cost is a powerful disincentive to complaining about it.

    Brian Ross: Mets Money Mishap May Make MLB a Monopoly After All Brian Ross 2011

  • I will believe it when I see Obama propose a bill that does not simply contain a public option by another name, or some other back-door trick to usher in single-payor system.

    Obama retreats from fight on ‘public option.’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • The more independent minor league owners initially bucked the back-door increase in charges for their ticketing that the owners were taking out of their pockets, but jeopardizing the relationship which brings the players, trainers, and coaches delivered to their doors in the farm system at virtually no cost is a powerful disincentive to complaining about it.

    Brian Ross: Mets Money Mishap May Make MLB a Monopoly After All Brian Ross 2011

  • Through back-door discussions ahead of October's yen-selling, Tokyo officials had given their U.S. counterpart the impression that Japan would hold off on interventions, the person said.

    Japan Hardens Currency Rhetoric Takashi Nakamichi 2012

  • The more independent minor league owners initially bucked the back-door increase in charges for their ticketing that the owners were taking out of their pockets, but jeopardizing the relationship which brings the players, trainers, and coaches delivered to their doors in the farm system at virtually no cost is a powerful disincentive to complaining about it.

    Brian Ross: Mets Money Mishap May Make MLB a Monopoly After All Brian Ross 2011

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