All piled up big college numbers, then had to start over on Monday.

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So they could have done without this week's reminder that soon they will be embroiled in the mother of all financial battles over what to do about all the debt piled up by Saddam Hussein's regime.

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Mr. TERENCE DELAINE (Refuge Manager, Sabine National Wildlife Refuge): Look like somebody's landfill with all their personal home items piled up.

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"To negate all the years I played for the Boston Red Sox, and all the tradition, and you look at all the stuff I've piled up in my house, to say I'll just throw it out the window is not true, " Youkilis said.

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So we already had all this debt that had just been piled up, but nobody had noticed because things were going kind of good.

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Buckeyes piled up the steals, swiping 21 bags in all.

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Which makes no sense at all as a monkey is, in archaic naval parlance, a brass triangle which iron cannon balls are piled up inside of.

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