In its wake, it leaves a trail of mucky plaques where brain cells used to be.

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REDD's stress on performance should make it unlikely, and Indonesia's forestry is getting less mucky.

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Near Glynde, I crossed the Ouse: the river mucky-banked, beginning to loop as it neared its floodplain and the sea.

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There were deep pools of water separated by thin islands of exposed road that looked too slick and mucky to even attempt.

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The vice-president's campaign against Bill Bradley has also been mucky and disingenuous.

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As we trudged along, our surroundings changed from barren, stony outcroppings to dry pine forest to beech tree clusters to mucky, grassy, deciduous bogs.

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So far, however, the main result is to make the run-up to Russia's general election, due on December 19th, even more tortuous and mucky.

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They root around in mucky tunnels and caverns, greeted only by white speckled apparitions that look like holographic versions of the phosphorescent guy we saw earlier.

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After a thumping victory in a mucky presidential election in April, and his party's equally resounding success in last year's parliamentary poll, these excuses have worn out.

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Right now, I believe I would lie down for him in any bog or mucky hole or feel my spine crushed against any roadside rock, should he require an upright encounter.

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Armstrong wanted to be bigger, and the way to be bigger was to step outside his small sport, and build a story line that was irresistible and more substantial than any mucky race in Europe.

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