The result: a rat task-force, a rat tsar, a rat hotline (500 calls already) and fiendish talk of limiting the rodent population by distributing contraceptives (presumably of the oral sort).
At the preserve pond, my occasional swim was observed by a slick, slime-covered rat-tailed muskrat.
So just to be clear -- preliminary recipient data that's coming in to the independent Recovery Accountability -- the RAT Board -- Recovery Accountability and Transparency -- preliminary data coming into the board from recipients shows 250, 000 education jobs saved or created.
Brands ' (nyse: YUM - news - people ) rat-infested Taco Bell to Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) roll-overs and Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) heart-attack-triggering Vioxx drug.
Lost in the celebration of those halcyon Charleston days is that the era spanning 1920 (when the 18th Amendment became law) to 1934 (when the amendment was repealed) was marked by raging culture wars, rampant xenophobia, political upheaval, and threats of death or worse that came more often via poisonous industrial-strength alcohol masquerading as low-grade liquor than the rat-a-tat-tat of a Tommy gun.
There was particular concern over plans to put Difenacoum - used in rat poison - on the list of products that are more stringently regulated.
How about a hot pair of cat-eye glasses, a Rat Pack-inspired suit, or a cocktail dress worthy of a femme fatale?
Once this rat pressed the correct lever, its brain activity was delivered as electrical stimulation into the brain of the second rat - designated the "decoder".
The team set the cyber-rat loose on two different groups of the furry subjects.
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"I've seen it all, all that rat-race stuff, the arms-race stuff, " said Mr. Nye.
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The Office of the Inspector General uses a program called RAT-STATS (like the name) for their auditing.
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Technology makes it possible to track vehicles via satellite to make sure that rat-runners do not escape charges.
The investment on this scale is unsustainable and is completely lost when a wamp-rat-hunting farmboy takes a lucky shot.
Good old Atlantic Monthly regularly dishes up a rat-in-the-punchbowl view of the future.
Only the "queen" mole-rat reproduces, suppressing fertility in both the females and the males around her by bullying them.
Cameras tracked their movements and were used to control a rat-sized robot that shared a cage with the rodent subjects.
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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The rat-removal operation would occur over the winter, from October to March, using 'bait stations' to prevent poisoning of non-target species.
The rat-turns-chef movie beat out "Persepolis, " based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, and "Surf's Up, " a computer-animated film about penguins.
In part two of Tales from Dunwall we witness some of the strange powers present in the rat-infested, mean streets of Dunwall.
The seedy warehouse district and the rat-infested weeds on the banks of the Arkansas river have never been exactly a popular spot.
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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.
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.
After being wrongfully accused of her murder, Corvo sets upon a tale of revenge and, depending on how you played, murder, through the rat-infested streets.
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Councillors in Bath say the A36 is being used as a rat-run between the M4 and the south coast and are proposing an 18-month trial of the measure.
Part of the road in Hermitage Way, Wooton, features metal teeth in a pit designed to stop cars using the road as a rat-run to the A45 dual carriageway.
Instant messaging, that rat-a-tat chat technology that is catching up toe-mail in popularity, still hasn't overcome a critical hurdle that e-mail cleared years ago: utter incompatibility among rival brands.
Mr Sullivan cleverly uses the rat as a way of burrowing into New York's hidden history and forgotten men, such as Kit Burns, a rat-pit impresario, who ran the city's most popular entertainment in the mid-1800s until cornered by crusading animal-rights activists.
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