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  • May 30th, 2006 at 6: 44 pm rushtalion says: wow, it’s so comforting to see that the opposite of “pro” gress is in full swing, and not working on issues like THE PRICE OF GASOLINE!!!!!!!!!!

    Think Progress » Sen. Bill Frist on Gay Marriage and Flag Burning, America’s Most Pressing Priorities 2006

  • (The "- gress" part recurs in egress and congress; it's from gradus, step.)

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • The sense is that it will bring the Con gress back to the middle a bit, about what needs to be done.

    Industry Sees Friendlier Climate Robbie Whelan 2010

  • Nothing is going to get done in this "CON-gress", because if these Democrats don't have the fortitude to correctly handle this situation, then they won't have the fortitude to pass the legislation to create real change.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • But only after Lehman was allowed to go bankrupt in mid - September, followed by the collapse of AIG and other financial institutions, did he at last demand the controversial $700 billion bailout fund from Con-gress and eventually proceed to supply capital to banks with part of it.

    How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do Madrick, Jeff 2009

  • We nao returns you to noarmal broadcast ske dueling and join “The Continuing Saga ob JC Penney Laen” in praw gress

    Eye of the tiger? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • October 2nd, 2005 at 11: 05 pm bob says: why are you americans waiting for your lame dick con gress to do something when inaction is the most expiedant? is it your government or not. or is it georges?

    Think Progress » Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal 2005

  • It is in Urdu, and it is much the same as the English version, except for one additional demand: the release of a shipment of F-16 fighter jets that Pakistan bought from the United States in the 1980s, which was stopped after Con-gress cut off military sales to Pakistan in 1990.

    Excerpt: 'Look, Danny's Talking To You' 2007

  • NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. . . just a couple of wannebe losers, who spend all their time in NON-essential NC pursuits like the self-serving, self-sustaining NOBODY-representing "CON-gress" which has NO authority to speak for ANY NC collectively.

    There's a Bad Moon Rising 2006

  • This going through and beyond, moreover, would not simply be a matter of going further down the road of linear progress; it would entail a hermeneutical as well as ultimately a (me) ontological and existential re-gress, a radical “step back.”

    The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

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