• We can hope we just have a brush with one of these bio-eco-cyber-socio-quarkish blowouts, learn to pick up the pieces, and invest in rebuilding. (Think REITS, big construction firms such as Fluor , plus canned goods, bottled water and ammo.) The other choice is to privatize the solar system, pronto.

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  • You don't have to be a gangster to have a brush like this with your friends at the IRS. Late last year the Tax Court ruled against John Hewitt, founder of the Jackson Hewitt Tax Service chain.

    FORBES: Better buy yourself another filing cabinet

  • Thus, while most emerging markets have suffered heavy losses, it is unfair to say that they have all been tarred with the same brush.

    ECONOMIST: Emerging-market measles

  • Jobs has been a vegetarian for years but his enthusiasm for green may have taken on an extra dimension since his brush with cancer.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • His only brush with the law in Colorado appears to have been a 2011 summons for speeding from Aurora police.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Those claiments would then feel they may as well try for something they have an interest in and would stop all unemployed being tarred with same brush.

    BBC: What you've said

  • Such questions have infected corporate sales departments since the 1950s age of the Fuller Brush salesman, with less-than-perfect results.

    FORBES: For Lasting Sales Motivation, Stop Spraying Cash Around

  • When it melts, tilt the pan so that the sides have a thin coating of melted butter (or do this with a pastry brush).

    NPR: Cookbook Author Celebrates Apple Season

  • At the risk of painting with a very broad brush, it is safe to say Malays have a thing for food, especially good street food, and as such a great place to see Malays at their most relaxed and happy is Georgetown's many hawker stalls.

    BBC: Penang: Malaysia in miniature

  • Past histories of Microsoft have said Mr. Allen's departure from the company was sparked by his first brush with cancer in 1982, when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.

    WSJ: Microsoft Co-Founder Hits Out at Gates

  • I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements and Republicans do.

    WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Dave Camp: Is Tax Reform Politically Possible?

  • It was caused by a private landowner clearing vegetation with a weed trimmer, which may have hit a rock and produced a spark that ignited the dry brush, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Linda Christman said.

    CNN: Firefighters make headway in California wildfire

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