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This week marks the end of this happy-talk season, and the beginning of the "nuts-and-bolts" season of writing their campaign promises into actual legislation.
Chris Weigant: Symbolism Versus Substance Chris Weigant 2011
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There were no solid reasons to expect we would escape the consequences, just happy-talk, twisted theory, and short-term greed.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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This week marks the end of this happy-talk season, and the beginning of the "nuts-and-bolts" season of writing their campaign promises into actual legislation.
Chris Weigant: Symbolism Versus Substance Chris Weigant 2011
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There were no solid reasons to expect we would escape the consequences, just happy-talk, twisted theory, and short-term greed.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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There were no solid reasons to expect we would escape the consequences, just happy-talk, twisted theory, and short-term greed.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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The parents nod in agreement and follow the librarian out of the room, and Barney quickly downshifts to the happy-talk patter he's perfected over the past two decades.
Me & Barney the Purple Dinosaur Con Chapman 2011
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This week marks the end of this happy-talk season, and the beginning of the "nuts-and-bolts" season of writing their campaign promises into actual legislation.
Chris Weigant: Symbolism Versus Substance Chris Weigant 2011
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There were no solid reasons to expect we would escape the consequences, just happy-talk, twisted theory, and short-term greed.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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The Afghanistan Rights Monitor's (ARM) mid-year report on Civilian Casualties of Conflict (. pdf) blasts the happy-talk coming out of the Obama Administration about the deteriorating security situation and its effect on civilians:
Derrick Crowe: Afghanistan Rights Monitor Slams Washington Spin About "Progress" in Afghanistan 2010
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The Afghanistan Rights Monitor's (ARM) mid-year report on Civilian Casualties of Conflict (. pdf) blasts the happy-talk coming out of the Obama Administration about the deteriorating security situation and its effect on civilians:
Derrick Crowe: Afghanistan Rights Monitor Slams Washington Spin About "Progress" in Afghanistan 2010
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