Deadweights

He acknowledged NAB's British business had been one of the "deadweights" undermining investor support for the bank, which has lagged rivals since the onset of the global financial crisis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have met very few of these deadweights over whom Michelle Rhee is ginning up so much heat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I guess she was hoping Goss would take the deadweights in the agency to church and to find them religion. ❋ Unknown (2004)

House Republicans should pass legislation now repealing these counterproductive regulatory deadweights, further dramatizing the stark choices for 2012. ❋ Peter Ferrara (2011)

And then Hyouka vanishes, restoring the natural order, yet still creating a bit of a vacuum in the air as her enormous deadweights disappear along with her. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That would make her one of the deadweights we're paying for as part of Gordon's gravy train - why the hell do the NHS Emplyers need three permanent PR people? ❋ Unknown (2008)

We would actually have to change the U.S. Constitution to remove all of these deadweights. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If the wisest and most energetic people invariably held the highest posts, it might coincide; since they often do not, there must be people in high positions who are really deadweights and people in lower positions who are more important than their rank and seniority would lead you to suppose. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Our deadweights have got better through attention to detail and we've retagged the whole flock with electronic identification equipment. ❋ Unknown (2010)