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- noun Alternative spelling of
runaway .
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Examples
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Instead the punditry rallied around Mr. Ryan's plan to deal with the problem of run-away entitlement spending, crediting it for being "serious" even if they did not embrace all the details.
Dean Baker: Paul Ryan in Your Pockets: Government by People Who Hate You Dean Baker 2011
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Wait for the hearings in Congress and the dems proposals to stop this run-away free market capitalism. frank in valparaiso indiana
Government agencies rely on contractors to oversee contractors 2010
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Conserve is the opposite of gross, run-away capitalism, just the opposite of what Republicans have come to stand for.
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Instead the punditry rallied around Mr. Ryan's plan to deal with the problem of run-away entitlement spending, crediting it for being "serious" even if they did not embrace all the details.
Dean Baker: Paul Ryan in Your Pockets: Government by People Who Hate You Dean Baker 2011
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In fact, it´s so good they have been banned from competition in Chiapas because every year their work was the run-away winner of any local competition they entered.
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In fact, it´s so good they have been banned from competition in Chiapas because every year their work was the run-away winner of any local competition they entered.
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The GOP snatched back the House with a deft play on the long favored racial code themes of tax and spend Democrats, wasteful big government, run-away deficit spending on entitlement programs, and their full blown assaults on so-called Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security programs, and labor unions.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why the GOP Presidential Candidates Talk Race (in Code) Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2012
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In fact, it´s so good they have been banned from competition in Chiapas because every year their work was the run-away winner of any local competition they entered.
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"This is just another example of run-away consultant spending at the Department of Education, which for years has failed to impose even minimum standards of oversight and accountability when it comes to outside contracts," Mr. Stringer said in a statement.
Report Stings Ex-DOE CFO Barbara Martinez 2011
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Instead the punditry rallied around Mr. Ryan's plan to deal with the problem of run-away entitlement spending, crediting it for being "serious" even if they did not embrace all the details.
Dean Baker: Paul Ryan in Your Pockets: Government by People Who Hate You Dean Baker 2011
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