Stalin had his eye on the Spanish gold because Spain had a mother lode of it.

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In Illinois, Route 66 is not only the Mother Road, but the mother lode when it comes to pie.

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This Mongolian mother lode is in a remote place called Turquoise Hill, or Oyu Tolgoi, as the locals refer to it.

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With its proximity to Asia and mother lode of gold, oil, iron ore and coal, Australia has enjoyed uninterrupted growth for the past 13 years.

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This is the mother lode, folks: we're starting off the new year by offering a brand-new iMac with 1TB hard drive, 8GB RAM and Magic Trackpad!

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From this mother lode of foolscap, the journalist Steven R.

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The CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series mother lode is mentioned often in their most recent annual report and so are Big Bang Theory, NCIS and The Good Wife.

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"Lie To Me, " the opening track on a three-disc mother lode of rarities Tom Waits calls Orphans, is two minutes and 10 seconds of pure, unfiltered rock 'n' roll bliss.

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In the Big Apple, however, Cintron ended up finding a "mother lode" of pay phones, 15 of them on a seven-block walk up Broadway on New York's Upper West Side.

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And above all, the mother lode is natural gas.

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China--with 112 million cable subscribers, already the largest cable population in the world and one that's expected to hit 137 million by 2010-- is ESPN's thus far untapped mother lode, according to Ben C.

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Certainly, the maternity market is no mother lode.

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At 56, the soft-spoken, mustachioed former money manager is looking for the next mother lode in Nevada--a logical place since the state produces more gold than any other in the U.S. McEwen implies that we're at the start of a classic boom-and-bust cycle but is plunging in anyway.

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Feith: On the latter question first, there have been enough articles that have come out already on these subjects that have been inaccurate that -- and it's quite clear that some of the articles that are inaccurate are getting reverberations in numerous other articles that clearly are derivative of the mother lode of inaccuracies here and there.

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Approaching energy strategically offers a mother-lode of long-term, well-paying job opportunities.

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