"A lot of cars stuck, a lot of roads not plowed, mainly the side roads, " said Chris Bornemann, 32, of Port Jefferson, as he put gas in his car after a rough drive around the Ronkonkoma area.
But they're stuck and a lot of people are stuck, upwards of 10 million people by some economist estimates.
Despite a rising economy and millions of new jobs, the media invariably stuck to a number of gloomy themes during the Reagan years, including the rising homeless population, twin deficits, and a generalized assumption that the supposed economic gains of the 1980s were only being enjoyed by the wealthy few.
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However Poland's Deputy Finance Minister Jacek Dominik, representing the Council of Ministers accused MEPs of "getting stuck in a rut of more and more".
During the first three days of the session, the 1, 000 members of the assembly stuck to a discussion of the 12 draft decrees that had been prepared in advance.
And a company must not have a high level of debt, since a moderate business downturn can have a very negative affect on a company when it is stuck with a lot of interest-rate expenses.
He has given the old Peroni a wide berth and is getting stuck into a bit of local culture - he tells me Milan's a bit like Kettering.
Police in Gloucestershire received reports of heavy goods vehicles stuck on a number of roads and salt supplies in the county ran so low that only A-roads were gritted on Thursday.
The Scottish SPCA has rescued a cat after it spent two days stuck in a network of drain pipes.
About a dozen people stuck around for a night of drinking Sunday at the Kajun's Pub, a small bar in New Orleans' Marigny district.
Some people never look away, completely immersed in whatever is happening in the palm of their hands, while others get stuck in a loop of pulling phones from pockets or purses and popping on the screens for just a moment before putting them away again for just a minute or two.
Part of what makes it popular is that the media is hunting for a way to cover the Latino vote, but it's stuck with a bunch of reporters, editors, producers and analysts who don't know much about Latinos.
Buyers may find that they have invested shrewdly and discovered a new Damien Hirst (who helped himself become rich and famous by exhibiting, artistically, a bisected cow), or they may find that they are stuck with a lot of overpriced steak.
Employees at GDF-Suez, a utility, stuck thousands of them to the windows of its HQ near Paris to represent Tintin, a comic-strip hero.
Flights that took off without a wait can now end up stuck waiting behind a line of jets because departure times have been changed.
There, a deal was stuck: Navin got a piece of the Tigers and Yawkey put another 5 grand in the bank.
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In 2004, the probe called Stardust swung by a comet called Wild 2, stuck out sort of a big catcher's mitt--I think it looks more like a tennis racket--and hopefully it picked up some of the particles thrown off by the comet.
Rescue teams "were met with a torrent of water and a car stuck facing up stream underneath a footbridge".
Nothing says "thanks for nothing" like giving notice to a boss who is stuck at the side of a road.
The Breakfast Club is a story of six distinct personalities stuck in a room together.
The sensor's imaging chip picks up the dark string immediately, even if only 1 femtogram (one-quadrillionth of a gram) of TNT is stuck to it.
Nominal wage inflation remains very low, as companies sit on vast piles of cash but remain reluctant to spend, and there is still a large amount of slack in the U.S. economy, particularly given a stubbornly high rate of unemployment stuck at 9%.
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Of course, almost everyone has a gift card stuck inside a wallet, with an awkward dollar or two of value left unspent on the card.
"It's costing HGV drivers a lot of fuel stuck in traffic jams, " he said.
Mexico in many ways has been stuck in a kind of limbo while a number of crises simmer.
We feel the suffering of procrastination, or the frustration of a stuck relationship.
Ad agencies, themselves stuck in a world of full page ads, 30-second spots and banners, need to get creative.
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This might go some way to explaining the oft-repeated observation that dogs are permanently stuck in a kind of puppyhood.
Shyam Bagga took a photograph of a lorry which had become stuck while trying to drive through a ford near Kenilworth Castle.
And it's important to empathize with people who become stuck in a cycle of hopelessness and depression the longer their unemployment continues.
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