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Spain's Santander buys Bradford & Bingley's 200 branches and £22bn savings book and the UK taxpayer gets lumbered with the mortgages.
As the neotropical spider sparks sweaty images of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando with its Apopyllus now, a new species of Malaysian mushroom gets lumbered with Spongiforma squarepantsii.
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank's acquisitions also share another unsavory trait: both Postbank and Dresdner come lumbered with exposure to the crisis in the American mortgage market.
Thanks to its premise – some young Asbo types find themselves lumbered with special powers – Misfits is often described as Skins meets Heroes, although it's comfortably better than both.
The presenters have all been lumbered with too many pre-written shoehornable one-liners.
"But Garde ended up lumbered with the same squad that got Tim Sherwood the sack in October.
Slow to innovate, lumbered with vast national infrastructures to maintain, and selling a product that gets more expensive to produce each year, fossil fuel companies are facing what could be a massive disruption to their market – one that they look set to be on the wrong side of.
If they're lumbered with complex paperwork to bring in EU staff post-Brexit that will cause a significant drag on the billions they contribute to the economy each year.
The government wants to bring the Northern Powerhouse to life, but with local councils and combined authorities being lumbered with responsibility for budgets that have been slashed to the point of being unsustainable, it feels like it's being still born.
The obvious problem is that in adding the many intervention tools, we have lumbered teachers with a bureaucratic burden that squashes their ability to put out fires in their classroom.
