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- noun Plural form of
escalation .
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Transport Minister Pat Conlon has previously conceded "escalations" are likely in the Oval costs as design and engineering works progress.
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Transport Minister Pat Conlon has previously conceded "escalations" are likely in the Oval costs as design and engineering works progress.
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The increases, dubbed "escalations," have resulted from changes in the scope of projects or other overruns, GSA said.
Federal Times 2009
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"Troop surges ...," you can bet a man thought that up; "escalations ..." yup, that's a man ... "
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The military push enabled by the escalations in Afghanistan isn
Derrick Crowe: The U.S. Has No Idea How Much Taxpayer Money It's Burning on the Afghanistan Bonfire Derrick Crowe 2010
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The military push enabled by the escalations in Afghanistan isn't working, and the ally we're relying on is a corrupt fraud, and the spending we're doing to support that ally is being handed out with little accountability.
Derrick Crowe: The U.S. Has No Idea How Much Taxpayer Money It's Burning on the Afghanistan Bonfire Derrick Crowe 2010
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In that one, the idea was that you never got a request to approve credit until all the relevant facts had been gathered and the people responsible for gathering the facts got nagged on a regular predetermined basis (with escalations) until it happened.
Tickler Systems and Thoughts on Mandating the EMR aka TBTAM 2009
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The military push enabled by the escalations isn't working, and the ally we're relying on is a corrupt fraud, and the spending we're doing to support that ally is being handed out with little accountability.
Derrick Crowe: The U.S. Has No Idea How Much Taxpayer Money It's Burning on the Afghanistan Bonfire Derrick Crowe 2010
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Editorial Anonymous posted this as part of a blog entry on overenthusiastic, unagented first-time authors: 'No questions about escalations?
You Asked For It 2009
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Editorial Anonymous posted this as part of a blog entry on overenthusiastic, unagented first-time authors: 'No questions about escalations?
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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