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During this period, he was billed in over 50 films, including the poorly-received Harlow (1965), The Plainsman (1966), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
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Embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's latest poorly-received plan involves bailing out failing banks in ways that enrich the same sort of hedge fund managers and Wall Street high-rollers who helped bring about the current mess.
Art Levine: Could Anger at AIG and Geithner's New Bank Plan Help Unions? 2009
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Mention how poorly-received the conference-paper version of your essay was.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009
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There was a well-received Edith Piaf biopic and a poorly-received Molière biopic.
Rant Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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And I think this has been mounting since we had the very poorly-received Geithner plan.
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There was a well-received Edith Piaf biopic and a poorly-received Molière biopic.
Archive 2007-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Mention how poorly-received the conference-paper version of your essay was.
Archive 2009-08-01 Flavia 2009
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Naomi Klein was an early skeptic of hope and change and boy, was that poorly-received by American progressives.
What Paul said. CC 2009
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Electricity is one; although electric cars have been poorly-received by the driving public in the past, new technology is developing to allow electric cars to be faster and able to go farther on a single charge.
Ethanol: Seriously, who thought this was a good idea??? 2008
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But turning to his own poorly-received pre-Budget report tax plans, Darling offered few concessions on his aim to charge non-domiciled residents an annual £30,000 fee from April.
Darling How are you spending our cash - the Budget Valleys Mam 2008
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