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  • P.D. @67, They want it both ways, when their inoffice they spend like drunken sailors and then when when the Dems take charge the GOOPers are suddenly fiscally responsible … ….

    Think Progress » Georgia’s Attorney General Disputes Cuccinelli’s Claim That Frivolous Health Care Suit Won’t Cost Taxpayers 2010

  • Just then the author of the play suddenly entered, and Lucien beheld M. du Bruel, a short, attenuated young man in an overcoat, a composite human blend of the jack-inoffice, the owner of house-property, and the stockbroker.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • So that upon all hands we may look for a form of servitude most galling to the blood — servitude to many and changing masters, and for all the slights that accompany the rule of jack-inoffice.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • But even that jack-inoffice could perceive that the poor Captain thought of his sick wife up stairs, and his little children, ten times for one thought he ever gave to his own position.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • I handed your letter to Judge Sheffey Judge Fultz strides as stately as a Prince since the judicial robes have fallen on him -- [unclear: Bennette] + Ryan are inoffice under the style + name of Cline + Sons. no change is observed except in the [illeg.] to [illeg.]

    Augusta County: N. K. Trout to Alfred Chapman, March 30, 1869 N. K. Trout 1869

  • Report Abuse go ahead shut it down...and I am taking names. see if you get back inoffice again.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • President Obama took a far differentapproach to nuclear disarmament than had been seen from the two mostrecent past presidents, Clinton and Bush, who had preceded him inoffice.

    OneWorld.net (U.S.) - beyond your own borders 2009

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