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Mr. JONATHAN PRINCE (Deputy Campaign Manager, John Edwards Presidential Campaign): Tier - smear.
But it was a miserable place to stay, its attic full of manic squirrels, its floor a dull smear of ground-in soot and dirt, its walls impregnated with the oily emanations of ten thousand meals.
Democrats on the committee, in contrast, saw an election-year smear attempt.
Other tests -- such as a Pap smear for cervical cancer or a lymph node biopsy for lymphoma -- are also safe.
"It's a smear campaign by these self-appointed consumer advocates and plaintiffs' attorneys, " says Curt D.
In another example a lady developed cervical cancer after failing to attend appointments for smear tests over a nine-year period, despite regular reminders from the practice.
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In Oxfordshire, they said, the number of 25 to 29-year-old women that have smear tests was very low.
Describing Vegemite as "a quasi-vegetable by-product paste that you smear all over your toast", the US president pronounced it "horrible".
Journalists who have dealt with Mr McBride and other Gordon Brown advisers, like former spin-doctor Charlie Whelan, say the aborted smear strategy bore the hallmarks of the way Mr Brown's team has dealt with his enemies in the past.
The "selective" leaking of e-mails "is not intended to inform the discussion but to smear former Penn State officials, including Joe Paterno, " said Sollers.
Burson-Marsteller, one of the largest PR firms in the world, had quietly worked to smear Google on behalf of its client, Facebook.
They said they decided to go public with their decades-old secret because they believed someone was about to release the information in an attempt to smear Domenici.
Dr. RUTH BERGGREN (Associate Professor, Adult Infectious Diseases, Tulane Medical Center and Charity Hospital): Sitting in the HIV out-patient clinic, taking care of an uninsured man who's coughing, I cannot get a smear on him to diagnose tuberculosis in the city of New Orleans.
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