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It enraged congressional representatives and staffers, helping spur the move to raise taxes on the buyout boys 'share of their investors' profits, known as the carry.
KKR leaders get a tax deal most of us can only dream of 2010
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What is missing here is the ominous ring these terms carry.
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The tones of their voices were high-pitched, but they spoke more slowly than their Eastern cousins, as if feeling the necessity, even when confined, of making every word carry.
The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894
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But it doesn't have the same negative vibes that lots of racial terms carry.
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She said when someone praises her, she does not "pick it up" and make it hers, make it a part of what she believes about herself, because this is something she does not want to "carry."
Kate Atkinson: Case Histories Michael Allen 2005
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At the approach to the lake are the Winnebago Rapids, which necessitate a portage, or "carry."
French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson
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The most used word in commercial real estate these days is 'carry.'
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(Verbatim) "My old man can 'member things and tell you things and he word carry.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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And it was a noise destined to be heard a long, long way; much farther than the doubter and a great many able scientists have supposed that sound would 'carry.'"
Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr
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In the life-and-death situation the regime is under, I'm not sure how much weight that's going to carry. ...
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