I've tired of expecting to have jet skis and snowmobiles ready and gassed up.

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When you gassed up, a computer would read your accumulated mileage, and charge you accordingly.

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Backup generators were being gassed up and positioned at key locations around the city.

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Three Amsterdam-Philadelphia flights and a flight from Brussels to Philadelphia gassed up in Bangor, Maine, the company said.

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As managing editor Bruce Upbin says, we gassed up a Gulfstream in early September and brought together the greatest investor ever, Warren Buffett, and one of the greatest recording artists ever, Jay-Z.

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In the once rarefied fishing village of Saint-Tropez, the 300-foot super-yachts and private jets of the new-nouveau riche were gassed up and fruit-of-the-month-vodka-stocked, the Estonian "special-events models" booked, the guest lists of bold faces edited to meet gossip-column requirements.

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We gassed up a Gulfstream 450 one warm September morning and flew one of the most successful recording artists of all time, Jay-Z, to meet the most successful investor of all time, Warren Buffett, on the latter's home turf of Omaha, Nebraska.

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Last Friday, Fed Chief Bernanke told us that the helicopter is gassed-up and full of dollars, and is ready to reignite inflation and spur job creation.

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