In other words, what appeared to be a train wreck was truly a train wreck.
Clinton and the Republicans in Congress recently have avoided a "legislative train wreck, " including a budget deadlock and partial government shutdown, but some Republicans are still concerned about whether they can work with congressional Democrats and the White House to pass important legislation this year.
You retrain yourself to treat the symptoms as useful rather than pointing to a train wreck.
You have Vaas, Buck, all these difference characters and the idea was that sometimes you do want to see a train wreck.
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"It's a train wreck waiting to happen, " he warned in his letter.
You may excuse your gawking as akin to staring at a train wreck, but to Sheen you are indecipherable from his true fans.
But longer term it's setting up a train wreck that could be even more destructive than the gaudy bursting of the high-tech bubble in 2000.
"I just see a huge train wreck coming down, " Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.
"We're talking about a budgetary train wreck, " said Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York.
Then comes a cultural train wreck inside the walls of Conversation.
With the number of users booming, human resource experts say an employee airing -- or tweeting -- dirty laundry about work is a company train wreck waiting to happen.
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But three neighboring Texas counties, which opted out of Social Security 30 years ago by creating personal retirement accounts, have avoided a fiscal train wreck while providing retirees with even more retirement income.
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The logic goes that due to the train wreck of a season that the Cowboys are in the midst of, Jones will back off the lockout talk as he needs precious revenues from ticket sales that will be lost next season due to the Cowboys poor showing.
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For instance, you may not have chosen to act, but the 2007-2009 equity bear market was a slow-moving train wreck where you had ample time to make adjustments, even if you had already seen a meaningful decline in your equity portfolio.
But you don't need to be one to recognize a legal train-wreck in the making.
When I started doing these videos last November, I said Europe is a slow motion train wreck.
The rest of the world is looking on in horror as a slow motion economic train wreck unfurls.
If they were watching TV at all, they were, I suspect, watching for a sort of dark train-wreck entertainment, not authoritative commentary.
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However, I strongly opposed adding another unfunded entitlement to the fiscal train wreck that is Medicare by providing all seniors with a costly drug benefit, even those, like me, who can more than afford to pay for their medicine.
Sometimes, those commonplace stressful moments keep building until a meltdown happens -- a massive, off-the-tracks-train-wreck meltdown.
But wait, there does seem to be a free way to cover some of the costs of that budgetary train wreck after all.
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