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  • It defeats the purpose to red-line a poor neighborhood if the undesirables can just hop on the metro and sully the nice parts of town.

    Matthew Yglesias » Cars Are Expensive, Poor People Take the Bus 2009

  • Till the accounts of his work do red-line some far, fair bookstore, and cost us evermore.

    SPECIAL CONTEST ACTIVITY 2009

  • If Ares 1 has been on the red-line for vibrations from the start, that might have been an intuitive red light for the designers.

    Ares Troubles Mount - NASA Watch 2009

  • On the central economic issues, the Conservatives have secured their red-line commitment to cut £6bn from public spending this year, as well as a greater emphasis on deficit reduction through spending cuts, as opposed to tax rises.

    David Cameron and Nick Clegg set out plans for 'seismic shift' in UK politics 2010

  • It sought to achieve this by acting directly on the structure of the financial system, quarantining commercial bank and brokering activities through red-line regulation.

    Costs and consequences 2010

  • Murray has a great game inside him, fighting to get out, but the urge to express himself fully on court, to red-line it when the chequered flag is in sight, is tempered by risk aversion honed over many years ofhitting a yellow ball over a 3ft‑high net into a rectangle measuring 39ft by 27ft in the expectation that, eventually, it will not come back to him and he will have won the point.

    Wimbledon 2010: Andy Murray looks for top gear in two-week title race 2010

  • Murray has a great game inside him, fighting to get out, but the urge to express himself fully on court, to red-line it when the chequered flag is in sight, is tempered by risk aversion honed over many years of hitting a yellow ball over a 3ft‑high net into a rectangle measuring 39ft by 27ft in the expectation that, eventually, it will not come back to him and he will have won the point.

    Wimbledon 2010: Andy Murray v Jan Hajek - as it happened Paolo Bandini at Wimbledon 2010

  • Shift into neutral and let the thing red-line until the engine blows?

    Runaway Prius 911 Call | Manolith 2010

  • On election Friday, Cameron insisted that immigration was one of the three red-line issues his party would not shift on (the other two were the impeccably libertarian policies of keeping Trident and opposing Brussels).

    Labour must stay committed to civil liberties 2010

  • For example, right now every Hyundai engine goes full-throttle red-line for 300 hours on a test stand.

    ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Humble’ 2010

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