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Westerners rarely understand how unpopular they are in Afghanistan due to real grievances, from smaller matters like the road-hogging conduct of NATO patrols, to the mistreatment of prisoners and the killings of relatively small, but significant numbers of civilians.
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One of the biggest stigmatisms about the introduction of micro-cars into the American market is a fear of what will happen if they are hit by a huge road-hogging SUV.
TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY: The 80mph TRIAC Goes on Sale! | Inhabitat 2008
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He recently traded in his road-hogging gas guzzling SUV for a much more compact and energy efficient Smart Car.
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For more than a decade after it went public in 1990, Winnebago Industries, manufacturer of the iconic road-hogging motor home, saw its shares soar despite choppy earnings growth.
Key Data 2008
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He recently traded in his road-hogging, gas-guzzling SUV for a much more compact and energy-efficient smart car.
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Also, Stefan's comment above is dead-on -- a position that we're saving money now must be made with the knowledge that a much-worse boondoggle that nobody uses, and that is many times more expensive and ineffective, will have to be put in to handle traffic from West Seattle and other Viaduct-dependent areas (i.e., monorail, even more empty and road-hogging, pollution-spewing, publicly-subsidized, inconvenient and dysfunctional buses).
Sound Politics: Liberal Democrat from Seattle Speaks Wisdom 2006
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Nor are they all on the same road-hogging scale as the giant Hummers.
When Is Big Too Big? 2007
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Coming up on "IN THE MONEY" this weekend, find out why the gas - sucking, road-hogging, four-wheel drive for no reason SUVs may finally be going the way of the dinosaur and it can't happen soon enough.
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She thought of SUVs as road-hogging, gas-guzzling trucks on steroids.
Crazy Love Desiree Day 2005
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She thought of SUVs as road-hogging, gas-guzzling trucks on steroids.
Crazy Love Desiree Day 2005
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