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Americans took their cues from Ronald Reagan -- an aging actor turned President -- and his headline-grabbing wife, who together racheted up the drug-war with their "Just Say No" rhetoric.

Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010

The Redskins coach was the subject of scorn and ridicule before his team lost to the Lions, but the setback in Motown only racheted up the heat.

NFL Replay: Declining skills at the root of T.O.'s slow start 2009

Americans took their cues from Ronald Reagan -- an aging actor turned President -- and his headline-grabbing wife, who together racheted up the drug-war with their "Just Say No" rhetoric.

Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010

Americans took their cues from Ronald Reagan -- an aging actor turned President -- and his headline-grabbing wife, who together racheted up the drug-war with their "Just Say No" rhetoric.

Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010

Or some type of clamp could be guided around the pipe — there are alot of clamps in the world that fit easily around a pipe and then are screwed or racheted to the pipe — viola, anchor.

Giant Underwater Dome Could Contain Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World 2010

And once residents reached the front of the line, the tension was racheted higher.

Darell Hammond: Lessons from the Gulf: Why Playgrounds Should Be a Priority in Disaster Zones 2010

The Edgeworthia has my excitement level racheted up, it will be a first to see it bloom, and smell it too.

Starting Anew « Fairegarden 2010

The whole Elena Kagan mediagasm is really only just getting racheted up, and while I expect to see a ream of writing on the prospective Supreme Court Justice -- some for and against, some serious and some frivolous -- I think that we can all state definitively that the worst piece that will be written on the subject has been handed in by Robin Givhan and published by the Washington Post.

Elena Kagan's Fashion Choices Matter To The Washington Post For Some Reason [UPDATE] 2010

Stocks have racheted up and down since late April.

Stock Market Likely To Stay Difficult For Some Time 2010

Lamont's victory has dramatically racheted up the pressure on Shays, one of the most ardent supporters of the war, to put some distance between himself Bush and the GOP leadership on Iraq.

CT-SEN: Shays To Hold Hearings On Iraq War 2009