Trying to manage Jeep and Hummer at the same time would be a marketing rat's nest.

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"Albany is a rat's nest of corruption, " said Simon Shink, 80, a retired pharmacist from Long Island's Syosset.

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Two aiders and a rat's nest of other equipment hanging off my harness made getting through the trees to the ground the crux of the day.

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Goudey acknowledges permitting for this kind of system would be a rat's nest and that today's aquaculture industry doesn't have the resources to set up a commercial-sized venture of this sort.

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Norfolk, like the rest of the railroad industry, spent a half-century in a siege mentality, slouching along by shrinking and slashing costs, tangled in rat's-nest mergers and wrestling with its featherbedding unions.

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