Seventy-five thousand tons dead-weight rushing through the fog at the rate of fifty feet per second, had hurled itself at an iceberg.

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To make up for this dead-weight loss, government spending must be worth much more than its apparent budget cost to be good for the country.

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Opposition spokesman Lord Eatwell said tax avoidance by businesses "undermines any perception of fairness in the tax system and imposes a dead-weight loss on the economy, by spawning a socially-useless tax avoidance industry".

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Those that managed to escape to Israel before the gates were locked were treated as unwanted dead-weight by Barak and his media flacks who couldn't be bothered with the treachery at the heart of the operation.

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He can squat almost twice his weight and dead-lift 450 pounds.

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And of course, the Soviet Union collapsed under the dead weight of its government-run economy.

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In fact the most debilitating symptom of depression is when life no longer produces anything that can free its victim from the dead weight of selfish self-consciousness.

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Climbing up Galinica, knee-deep in snow, the gun a dead weight against his ribs, the blacksmith was convinced that this was the end for him.

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