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And he will probably remain rather more popular in Europe than he is at home because it is in tackling the back-pocket issues with their own electorates - like health care - that most politicians make their enemies.
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When apparel maker Betabrand created a pair of khaki pants whose back-pocket linings and hems could be exposed to reveal reflective fabric, it expected the pants to be a short-term novelty item.
Beyond Spandex: Chic Styles for Cyclists Take Off Christina Binkley 2011
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My thought was that some of these four may have been back-pocket votes from the original House bill vote, months ago.
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And she encouraged as much back-pocket proximity and calling as possible.
Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010
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Flap pockets or other back-pocket detailing can help add a little more oomph to your ass too.
Oh No She Didn’t Clinton Kelly 2010
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The polka exam was one of De Vos 'back-pocket projective tests.
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The PR-option (and Gordon Brown, from the grins at that last Presser, has something in his back-pocket) solves a lot of the reasonable issues raised by this fine article.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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I will keep your excellent suggestions in a mental back-pocket and try them out one day:
Annals of the Second Great Depression: Looking On The Bright Side Tenured Radical 2009
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Swift Winds is a back-pocket compendium of subversive texts, marvelous manifestos, mutinous rants, outrageous ideas, utopian dreams, impossible demands and incendiary broadsides strategically aimed at countering the pathos of miserablism with the uncontrollable laughter of the insurgent imagination.
Today’s Featured Book Event-Dunn, Sampsell, Ligon, and Walter at Powells - Reading Local: Portland 2009
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When Clair McCaskill says Obama has back-pocket supers just waiting to endorse, I believe her.
Some Super-Dels Reluctant To Take Sides Because They Don't Want To Alienate Major Donors 2009
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