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  • When public road development began in Chicago in 1910, city planners came up with the idea of double- and triple-deck streets.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • When public road development began in Chicago in 1910, city planners came up with the idea of double- and triple-deck streets.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • When public road development began in Chicago in 1910, city planners came up with the idea of double- and triple-deck streets.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • The proposed budget cuts represent a double- whammy for NOAA, coming on the heels of the administration’s earlier announcement that it wanted to move the agency to the Interior Department as part of a more general reorganization plan.

    Sarah Chasis: White House Budget Proposal Threatens Cuts to Critical Coastal and Marine Programs Sarah Chasis 2012

  • Might a double- or even a triple-cross be in the works?

    In Brief: Mystery Tom Nolan 2011

  • He struggled in limited action during his first taste of The Show last season, but he did put up outstanding power numbers and hit for average during the parts of 2010 that he spent in double- and triple-A.

    NL East position rankings: right field 2011

  • The spot commodity index rose 81% from November 1971 to October 1973, but then collapsed as all those double- and triple-ordered supplies arrived.

    Gary Shilling's Seven Faces Of Deflation 2011

  • The proposed budget cuts represent a double- whammy for NOAA, coming on the heels of the administration’s earlier announcement that it wanted to move the agency to the Interior Department as part of a more general reorganization plan.

    Sarah Chasis: White House Budget Proposal Threatens Cuts to Critical Coastal and Marine Programs Sarah Chasis 2012

  • Worried that they'd run out of critical materials in a robust economy, producers started to double- and triple-order supplies to insure adequate inventories.

    Gary Shilling's Seven Faces Of Deflation 2011

  • Colossal puppets have proved some of the most successful street art events of recent years, including the giant spider which was mobbed at Liverpool's Biennale in 2008 and the enormous elephant led by a child taller than a double- decker bus which brought parts of London to a standstill in 2006.

    Zandra Rhodes plans iron corset for Godiva's Olympic ride 2011

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