Deflation can be both a symptom of an economy sinking into the muck, and a reason why it sinks even deeper, but it's usually a lagging indicator.
She called her housemate Aisleyne 'a moose', said Richard was 'snidey and two-faced' and labelled Susie, 44, 'Lady Muck' and a 'bitter old hag' - all behind their backs, of course.
And rather than watch a whole generation of hatchlings hurtle into the muck and die, a consortium of federal and state wildlife groups on June 26 announced a plan to collect about 70,000 mostly loggerhead turtle eggs in up to 800 nests buried in the sand across Florida Panhandle and Alabama beaches -- and release the hatchlings along Florida's central Atlantic coast.
And the very trait that propelled him in Florida — a willingness to descend into the muck and run a relentlessly negative campaign — distracted from his economic-themed argument against Mr. Obama while deepening his rift with some populist conservatives.
Early last Monday, after a period of heavy rain, the earthen dike that contained the ash breached and 5.4 million cubic yards slid away, covering 300 acres in muck and knocking a nearby home off its foundation, according to the T.V.A.'s estimates.
(In fact, Schamus told me the only thing people who were there in 1969 think Taking Woodstock lacks for atmosphere is the stink created by acres of muck and half a million people).
Set in the coalfields of the West Riding, where Hines grew up, this is a muck-and-nettles story that would probably read like science fiction to a present-day 18-year-old Premier League goalscoring prodigy whose agent is negotiating his first five-figure weekly wage packet.
"The ideal was not to work with your hands, not to get down in the muck and the grime — an education was seen as a way out of that world, and still is, to a large extent.
Even though Bill is covered in muck and looks like a swamp, there's sex to be getting on with.
These brothers might not look rugged, but they are – one friend recently described Alistair as "muck and nails … a Yorkshire animal", which sounds about right.
If you have the time to watch Turati's speech, you'll get a sense of why Hernández's new book matters — even if, or precisely because, it means wading through the muck and grimness of a next-door war.
