The Office of the Inspector General uses a program called RAT-STATS (like the name) for their auditing.

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Splinter (the noble super-rat) and Shredder (the Darth Vader-like villain) are back, along with a barrage of puns and oddball exclamations.

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Like a rat-race commuter, you can get dressed, have breakfast, say goodbye to the goldfish, then march out the door ready to conquer the world.

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In the 1950s, this was the go-to destination for Rat Pack party boys like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, who turned the town into their own private playground of jazz, cigars and card games.

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Simon Pope, a spokesman for the World Society for the Protection of Animals in London, said his group would like to know whether other rat-control methods that don't involve toxic substances were investigated and what assessment has been made about the pesticides on the birds.

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"I don't like it when it's a rat-pack bar" filled with a wall of liquor bottles and lined with bar stools, says Mr. Smith.

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Like the Rat Pack before them, rap and hip-hop's musical message was so entwined with its sartorial image that its effects couldn't help but be far-reaching.

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As far as comfort is concerned, chew on this -- out of the box, the Rat 9's completely coated in soft-touch plastic, and if you don't like that, you can swap for a pair of textured rubber palm and pinky grips instead.

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