Instead, with no real deadline, a long, slow, thickening of the treacle looks a likelier outcome.

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Anyway, the day after I got the diagnosis, I was back at work, hauling treacle.

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Her film career included parts in comic horror movie An American Werewolf in London and Brimstone and Treacle.

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Was this investigation to morph into a molasses slow treacle trickle the foreclosure delays could last well into next year.

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In a town where treacle-wading has long been the main sport, the waders feel that the treacle has become even thicker.

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For a decade, the political establishment has failed to find a way to pull the country out of its economic treacle.

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To be honest, I like hauling treacle more than anything else.

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The void needs to be filled, the treacle thinned.

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In such circumstances, all it would take to open the way to demagogues and other sorts of political faith-healer would be a fresh economic crisis, one harsh enough to make voters fear that treacle was turning into quicksand.

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