The situation appears to be a runaway train with no one in the cab.

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The biggest risk for the White House is that this is, for the moment, a runaway train.

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But it's not just newfound love that is making Jamie feel, thrillingly, like he's on a runaway train.

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Ironically, despite the notion that China was a runaway train, the iShares FTSE Xinhua only recently started posting gains and is up a modest 0.5% YTD.

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London Underground is to be prosecuted by the rail regulator over a runaway engineering train.

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The logical part of your brain is trying to calm down the runaway train that the rest of your senses have become, because it knows for a fact that you were careful to frequently save your work in spite of what looks like evidence (a whole lotta nothin') to the contrary.

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