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  • And I would extend the "leave this space alone" rule to the notices of events around campus that eager-beaver work study students (I assume) post on the stall doors.

    Discourse.net: Not Real. Please. Not Real. 2009

  • "OK, keep an eye on Peggy," he says, referring to Elisabeth Moss 'character, who's evolved from eager-beaver partner to feminist this season.

    A Mad Dash to the Finish 2010

  • The opening scene was of a body found in a swamp, slapped on the exam table, with an eager-beaver troop of Woodchucks standing by.

    Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: The Last Patrol | EW.com 2009

  • In high school, as an eager-beaver reader, I turned out dozens of enthusiastic if naïve book reviews, filling the exercise book meant expressly for this purpose, long before I was meant to.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The magic country of childhood reading 2009

  • An investigator operating alone could be too easily accused of planting evidence by an eager-beaver defense attorney.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

  • An investigator operating alone could be too easily accused of planting evidence by an eager-beaver defense attorney.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

  • Here is where the sea formed anew, and widened, and deepened, and where sediments from another river, and the carcasses of microorganisms, were deposited, buried, baked, until finally -- the enchanting payoff of the story if you're an eager-beaver oil executive -- the organic matter turned into oil.

    BP disaster: Rare mix of geological factors created rich but dangerous reserves 2010

  • Voters arriving at their early polling places in Prince George's County last week said they were stormed by eager-beaver candidates and campaign workers who pushed literature into their hands before they had a chance to put them up in protest.

    The signs (and sounds) of Election Day in D.C. 2010

  • Here is where the sea formed anew, and widened, and deepened, and where sediments from another river, and the carcasses of microorganisms, were deposited, buried, baked, until finally -- the enchanting payoff of the story if you're an eager-beaver oil executive -- the organic matter turned into oil.

    Rare mix of geological factors created rich but dangerous reserves 2010

  • Here is where the sea formed anew, and widened, and deepened, and where sediments from another river, and the carcasses of microorganisms, were deposited, buried, baked, until finally -- the enchanting payoff of the story if you're an eager-beaver oil executive -- the organic matter turned into oil.

    Where the oil is 2010

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