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  • We need to fund the (Human Spaceflight), Civil Space Program, with a uninterrupted up-stream budget that is planned to position the United States to lead the trek back to the Moon, then on to Asteroids, and Mars, (Not follow the upstarts in the world).

    Transition Team Update - NASA Watch 2009

  • Go rant to your Mother for more Milk. uninterrupted up-stream budget IN your Dreams.

    Transition Team Update - NASA Watch 2009

  • For an hour they watched the two men, who had become mere specks of black in the distance; for they had managed to gain the middle of the river and at the same time had worked nearly a mile up-stream.

    CHAPTER 23 2010

  • Then began the arduous up-stream toil, and the two Incapables fared worse than ever.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • Half a dozen sleds, evidently bound up-stream to Dawson, were splashing through the chill water to the tail of the island.

    AT THE RAINBOW'S END 2010

  • But Frona jerked the canoe parallel with the bank, and he found himself gazing at the long up-stream stretch.

    CHAPTER 25 2010

  • Then began the arduous up-stream toil, and the two Incapables fared worse than ever.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • Egypt is the largest single consumer of the waters but is concerned that southern Sudan could join up-stream countries in East Africa in pushing for a greater share.

    North and South Sudan: Challenge of Forming Cooperative Ties 2011

  • Thus, she would tap the western bank directly opposite the starting-point, where she could work up-stream in the slacker flood.

    CHAPTER 25 2010

  • Three miles up-stream, where the Yukon curved grandly in from the west,

    CHAPTER 24 2010

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