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Hello, I am your hostess Paula Deen, and someone put a double-stack of X in my coffee!
Paula Deen: Is Your Mother Home? Cosmo7 2009
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Wendy's International Inc. announced it will place its double-stack cheeseburger as well as two other sandwiches on a revamped 99-cent menu, following moves by McDonald's and Burger King Holdings Inc. to explore less expensive ways to offer their value-priced hamburgers.
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But they are too low for double-stack trains, which haul shipping containers one above the other.
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A double-stack freight train can replace as many as 300 trucks and achieve nine times the fuel efficiency of highway movement of the same tonnage volume.
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Rather than double-stack them, I just decided to box up a significant number of books I was pretty sure I wouldn't need for a bit.
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I ate a Wendi's double-stack (which is completely unhealthy) and fortunately it sat better than the pepsi (which came back up along with a bit of my meal) earlier.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2003
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Gary Numan powers up a double-stack keyboard with a DieHard battery.
unknown title 2011
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Ohio to allow the passage of double-stack container trains.
unknown title 2011
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However, when it in-gates at an intermodal rail terminal it will be lifted and secured like a standard steel box container and it is capable of double-stack transport in the top or bottom position.
unknown title 2011
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And then, of course, at the port, it gets put directly onto perhaps a double-stack train and travels nonstop halfway across the country, so the movement is much more fluid, much more rapid, and you don't have individual pieces of cargo being handled.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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