With the economy barrelling along, the finance ministry could simply cap spending and enjoy the swelling tax revenues.

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We are barrelling along through the Yorkshire Dales, a third of the way into a three-hour training ride.

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Pork-barrelling, of course, would stay in its proper home, Brussels.

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The latest bill is by no means free of pork-barrelling.

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Besides, says Matsushita, when the Japanese economy was barrelling along, fast growth kept the average age (and hence cost) of the company's workforce low, as it recruited more and more staff each year.

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He is hired by the brutish Dunwitty (a barrelling Michael Rapaport) to come up with a fresh idea, and duly delivers a minstrel show, complete with chicken gags and black actors encrusted in blackface.

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First Phil Dowson went on a barrelling run and then, in a passage of play that epitomised the free-flowing nature of the game, James Simpson-Daniel broke from deep for Gloucester before Saints lock Courtney Lawes stole the ball and fed Bruce Reihana.

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