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  • But the ending cannot short-change the reader with a tack-on, happy conclusion, (Hannibal anyone) or a tack-on ‘poignant’ conclusion.

    Happily Ever After… at SF Novelists 2009

  • Time to tack-on a significant fee, and Schumer, go back to the hill and do something that benefits society for a change.

    Senator vows to block carry-on fee 2010

  • It does seem to fit the restatement section as worthless as they are, but I would agree with the above commenter that this is the type of claim that actually is IIED, as opposed to the frivolous tack-on IIED claims...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Tort Liability: 2009

  • That's a complete tack-on issue the filmmakers were interested in dealing with.

    GreenCine Daily: Children of Men. Revisited. 2007

  • Really, the next round of tack-on appropriations are gonna be mighty slim for this district of yester-nazis.

    Bachmann Survives Re-Election Battle 2009

  • I like James 'idea about the tack-on comment like "not worth the price of admission".

    OpEd: Objectivity in Reviewing 2006

  • One of the hard things - TSR never got it quite right with Swords & Spells or the Battlesystem - is you do in fact need some kind of tack-on mass battle rules.

    Two Possibilities James Maliszewski 2008

  • If you read Civil War: X-Men, you realized that it mostly existed to finish up the 198 mini and clean up the X-Books a bit, the ‘Civil War’ portion mostly a tack-on title to attract readers by a couple panels of cameos.

    The Fifth Color – Tying It All Together 2007

  • So basically, I felt the tack-on negated the message, and mentioned this to my coworker, who has now decided never to include me on anything again ever.

    Pen-Elayne on the Web 2006

  • "If you have good pitching, you can make a tack-on run matter, you can make one-run leads matter."

    USATODAY.com 2003

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