However, extracting patents from the Indian Patent Office is like a root-canal operation. ❋ Venky (2009)
My other worry about this is that it's going to start to look like root-canal economics--that all the Republicans want to do is cut everything. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But root-canal economics also does not constitute optimal economic policy. ❋ Kevin M. Warsh (2010)
To mollify these practitioners of root-canal economics, Budapest is imposing a steep "temporary" tax on banks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My perspective was sorely tested when one student boldly stated that he would rather have a root-canal than read another page of Ishiguro's novel. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Kemp's day it was called "root-canal economics": tax, spend, and leave the taxpayer shrieking with pain. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Some might prefer a root-canal precedue to reading such stuff ❋ Unknown (2009)
In all probability, no parrots were involved in your most recent root-canal work. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I am a general dentist who performs a great deal of crown and bridge dentistry in addition to the highest quality root-canal treatment, cosmetic care,dentures,etc. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)
Supply-siders derided that idea as a political loser, “root-canal economics.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
I had a double root-canal ouch, cracked a tooth and had to have two very old fillings replaced. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If your medical need -- say, psychotherapy or root-canal work -- wasn't covered, you'd have to pay for it on your own. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Campaign aide Marvin Nicholson Jr., on his boss, John Kerry, and the intimacy of the campaign trail "I would be the first to say that this subject inherently is about as interesting as prolonged root-canal work." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Early in his recovery, he even had a root-canal operation without Novocain rather than risk taking any drug. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Perot's stern attack-the-deficit message echoes a view GOP supply-siders have long since dismissed as mere "root-canal Republicanism." ❋ Unknown (2008)
But David Schmidt, 30, saw another side to the service-a handy dodge from aggressive telemarketers, or from your brother's description of his root-canal excavation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
First, the root-canal economics of pre-Reagan conservatism was right all along: the way to limit the growth of government is to force politicians, and therefore voters, to pay for all the government they use — not to give them a discount. ❋ Unknown (2006)
