The safety guard that was on the grinder when it left the factory in 1961 was sawed off some years later.

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As this forward-thinking vision for revenue-generating policy enters the sausage grinder in the coming weeks, it will be vital for butchers and carpenters to understand this opportunity.

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It came with a meat grinder attachment with its box.

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But even if the proposal should get through the political grinder of the grid-locked Congress, it would be too little too late by the time it could be implemented.

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Any political fallout may thus depend on what happens to the pope's message once it's swept up into the sausage grinder of American spin.

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