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• n  the quantity a shovel can hold

• Fiorina wasn't the only woman high up in the business world The Tragic Kingdom A scandalous new book on Disney has dirt by the shovelful, roiling the House of Mouse.
• As the first shovelful of dirt fell down upon them, Frederick Vodegel fired three volleys from his shotgun.
• For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the .

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• spadeful

News & Articles

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• Bloomfield Hills moves forward with combined high school
  With a shovelful of dirt dropped outside Andover High School, the Bloomfield Hills Schools district on Friday marked the start of its move toward a single high school. The change is a decade in the making.
  June 15, 2013 - Detroit News

Quotes

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• Tony Clement in National Post
  This is not about getting a shovelful of money and tossing it out the window and hoping it has some effect,Mr. Clement said. "It is about a long-term strategy for the North American industry."
• David Gilmour in The Sunday Times
  David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd, said: "Syd didn't need encouraging. If drugs were going, he'd take them by the shovelful"
• Barack Obama in AFP
  But he also reminded journalists that Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and US president-elect Barack Obama said "this isn't about getting a shovelful of money and tossing it out the window and hoping it has some impact....