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  • "The days of Uncle Sugar being a wonderful source of revenue" and revenue growth are "at risk," he added.

    Business Braces for Belt Tightening Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011

  • “Tonight, Uncle Sugar will be putting us up at the Hotel Histria.”

    The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010

  • And as for any of those workers who just can't handle working for a private company instead of Uncle Sugar, they would be eligible for a voluntary buyout of up to $25,000.

    When Only the Best Will Do. Don Lewis 2008

  • Now that Uncle Sugar is making noises about doing it for them, they support that.

    "Obama acted almost as the primaries were behind him, offering a case against the probable Republican nominee." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Homeowners pay in a variety of ways, from having their own home value drop when their neighborhoods become ghost towns of abandoned, foreclosed property, to picking up the tab when Uncle Sugar comes to the rescue of the big banks who bought up the phony loans like cyanide laced hard candy.

    Mortgage fraud: It's so bad feds just track cases over 50K 2007

  • And forking over an extra chunk for Uncle Sugar probably won't enhance the experience.

    How much for a lap dance? Don Lewis 2007

  • And forking over an extra chunk for Uncle Sugar probably won't enhance the experience.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Don Lewis 2007

  • Later, he came to understand that the Frenchman was in the business of weapons and dope, if not directly sanctioned by Uncle Sugar - the local cynical nickname for the US Government - then at least tolerated by this enigmatic, godlike entity which overstrode life in wartime Saigon like a Titan from the clouds.

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • Uncle Sugar announces it going to require renovation of all the nuke reactors in the country and allow 6 more to be built.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • And there's no incentive to control costs when the players know Uncle Sugar will just borrow a few more bucks from China to pay their bills.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

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