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Thus, even this supposed "bright spot" of Beck's thinking reveals the "loosy-goosy" argument style that marks all of his arguments.
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Evidently not, because on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue policy makers are busy giving the FHA even more business while easing its already loosy-goosy underwriting standards.
The Next Fannie Mae 2009
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Jayne Weintraub, and the fact that she could just switch to Italian and nobody said anything, it just shows you what kind of a loosy-goosy system they have over there.
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WEINTRAUB: Well, I don ` t know that I would call it loosy-goosy.
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It ` s kind of a loosy-goosy business, so he could have rented a plane and could have escaped.
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The storied local band turned the tables merit-wise after a loosy-goosy but hardworking set by a Marcus Miller small group.
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Oh, it still works, after a fashion, but I've been unable to fix the "loosy-goosy" action as metal parts begin to fatigue and wear out, because I cannot find proper replacements.
third world county 2010
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* Now that we own Freddie and Fannie, it might be a good idea to take a look at the loosy-goosy credit card industry before we own everyone's overextended credit.
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That’s why, even in the kind of loosy-goosy statistics that business clients sometimes used lower CIs, we always decided our CI with the client first — it prevents you from adjusting your CIs afterwards to make things that you think ought to be significant, significant, merely because they were “almost” significant.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginity Among Unmarried Heterosexual 25-to-45-Year-Old Americans 2009
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In econometrics, you couldn’t use loosy-goosy phrases like “replaced by a later corrected version.”
Will the Real USHCN Data Set Please Stand Up? « Climate Audit 2007
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