Alas, these are proposals that most go through the meat grinder known as the U.S. Congress.

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In the late 19th Century, a doctor experimented with grinding peanuts in a hand-operated meat grinder.

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But what's happened in the subprime debacle is more like a meat grinder, where the risk of hard to predict mortgage defaults has contaminated whole batches of securities.

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It came with a meat grinder attachment with its box.

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Bankruptcy is a meat grinder for Debtors.

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In a controversial 1999 decision the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York held that Hobart Corp. was liable for failing to put a warning label on a meat grinder in which an employee lost his hand.

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