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Examples
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Jimmy Carter said we needed to wean ourselves from the crude oil barrons.
Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010
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Why reward robber-barrons who care nothing for the well-being of the Nation while expecting middle and low income earnings to bear the brunt?
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Sometimes it looks like the division is between the responsible and irresponsible, or the productive and the dependent, or between the robber barrons and the oppressed masses, but these are just the consequent perceived divisions that result from that core of risk and uncertainty.
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The oil barrons would spend all that excess profit to drum them out of office.
Clinton: McCain's '2013' speech like 'Mission Accomplished' 2008
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Not only foreign policy, but the high cost of food, gasoline and not to mention to so many people that are in foreclosure because they kept a blind eye to the robber barrons.
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Liberals know that the average person equates “progressive” with “the progressive era” when muckrakers exposed the robber barrons and the franchise went out to all.
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Sometimes it looks like the division is between the responsible and irresponsible, or the productive and the dependent, or between the robber barrons and the oppressed masses, but these are just the consequent perceived divisions that result from that core of risk and uncertainty.
Michael Rugnetta: My Take on the Recent Brooks-Taibbi Flap 2010
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The president is not going to come out and say it straightforward, we are there to exert pressure over the oil barrons.
Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly 2008
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How robber barrons work - 101. by Joe Vignolo on Saturday, Feb 28, 2009 at 2: 42: 11 PM
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Janjaweed bad breed hab dem plan initiated by Bush an him gangs chasing black Africans affa dem lan fi exploit de oil wut billions a gallong wanted dead or alive by de oil barrons time fi talk de truth United Nation time fi talk de truth Kofi Annan de scramble fi Africa on de rise again
More “Political Poetry” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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