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Also, while the 2008 financial crisis triggered a global recession in 2009, many economies emerged from it more briskly than the U.S. because they were less burdened by heavy household debt, falling house prices and the gummed-up financial system to which Mr. Bernanke referred.
Fed Darkens Its Outlook but Plans No Changes Jon Hilsenrath 2011
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"At 6 a.m. we already had a dozen people lined up outside with their snow blowers, most of which had gummed-up carburetors from old gas" says Kenny Puff, vice-president of Westchester Tool Rentals in Elmsford, N.Y.—a snowball's throw from Consumer Reports' Yonkers, New York, headquarters.
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I peeled apart the gummed-up edges and carefully picked at the larger areas, like pulling price tags off plastic packaging.
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010
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But they're hungry for what corporate controlled media, profiteering religion and a hopelessly gummed-up bureaucracy of a government cannot -- despite their promises -- provide:
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The stock market tends to breathe easier when a gummed-up government lowers the prospect of new regulation or legislation that might crimp businesses.
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It will do way more than Matti's TGD (or Sidharth's quantum holes) to get the gummed-up physics works unstuck for the 21st century.
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Also, mental stimulation promotes the creation of new nerve networks so electrical nerve activity can bypass the gummed-up routes.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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Also, mental stimulation promotes the creation of new nerve networks so electrical nerve activity can bypass the gummed-up routes.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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When he woke, seldom before eleven hundred, with gummed-up eyelids and fiery mouth and a back that seemed to be broken, it would have been impossible even to rise from the horizontal if it had not been for the bottle and teacup placed beside the bed overnight.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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When he woke, seldom before eleven hundred, with gummed-up eyelids and fiery mouth and a back that seemed to be broken, it would have been impossible even to rise from the horizontal if it had not been for the bottle and teacup placed beside the bed overnight.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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