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           					The living room has a ratty blue couch, a 27-inch TV and a videogame player. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: The Plumtree Software Soap Opera 
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           					The best thing on show is Bell, whose ratty, unsentimental demeanor just about sees the story though. 
            					  		    					
           					 NEWYORKER: Billy Elliot 
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           					Apparently, Americans are ok running and playing basketball in those old ratty college t-shirts longer than others are. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: Sporting Goods Struggle 
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           					At 5 am the bridal party will rise, in pajama pants and ratty gym tees, on the living room floor. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: The Royal Wedding And The World Cup: Why I Cheer For Both 
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           					The Tropicana is a ratty 50-year-old casino on Las Vegas Boulevard that's being courted as if it were the hottest new thing in town. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: What Real Estate Slowdown? 
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           					Not some ratty little hot plate thing, a full blown barbeque. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: Cars That BBQ: New Meaning To Drive Thru Food 
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           					He's wearing a ratty blue sweater with a light brown T-shirt over it and the collar of a shirt spilling out over the top of it all. 
            					  		    					
           					 NPR: The Redemptive Power of Music, and Friendship 
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           					Jeff Bridges is Bad Blake, a well-travelled country singer and a barely functioning mess with a ratty beard and ponytail, a large belly, and a constant cigarette and glass of bourbon. 
            					  		    					
           					 NEWYORKER: Crazy Heart 
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           					Numbers of the British vole - which inspired Ratty's character in the children's classic The Wind in the Willows - have plunged from seven million to less than a million in a decade. 
            					  		    					
           					 BBC: Club's 'mince mink' campaign 
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           					Indeed, one real-estate agent told me that the main reason that he used them wasn't because of their expertise but to keep clients from getting mad at him: When sellers needed to be told that their drapes were dated and their rugs ratty, his stagers delivered the bad news, not him. 
            					  		    					
           					 WSJ: How Much Staging Is Too Much?--WSJ House Talk 
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           					Their rough-hewn prototype sits in a small room at Trust Automation's headquarters in San Luis Obispo, California, using a water-filled vitamin bottle as a shock absorber. ("It runs like a Corvette on a Pinto engine, " Safreno says, smiling.) The ratty demo reel first shows a 22-second clip of an actor walking on a grassy lawn, past a blurred van, squirting water with a hose, at 24 fps. 
            					  		    					
           					 FORBES: Film's Latest Picture Show