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It seems to me that we are stuck in a rut.

But the two sides have been stuck in a rut for months.

No one can say the couture is stuck in a rut.

All of you are stuck in a rut of time sequence.

I was stuck in a rut, and I couldn't figure out why.

The old folks are stuck in a rut.

Because Lexie was stuck in a rut and had been ever since she'd fallen for the young man from Chicago?

In middle age, Chas is stuck in a rut.

While there, everything was stuck in a rut so deep it felt like being on a circular drive, here everything fairly whipped along.

We were stuck in a rut.

Levitz, after being stuck in a rut for a decade, was struggling to breathe new life into its business.

Sounds more like the previous CEO was stuck in a rut and just wanted to keep making money doing things the way they always did.

We seem to be stuck in a rut and can't advance by pulling or by pushing."

"Robert was stuck in a rut," Glasscock says.

"Over the last decade, the world's financial markets have been greatly reformed, but Japan's have been stuck in a rut," he said.

A view emerged that the EC was stuck in a rut, and was losing its vision and direction.

The State Department, she said, is stuck in a rut, financially ill equipped and lacking people skilled enough to deal with the post-cold-war era.

"At some point, Enki realized that Sumer was stuck in a rut.

FOR billions of years evolution was stuck in a rut, with algae, bacteria and other one-celled creatures holding dominion over the seas.

But it is also very apparent that the MMO genre is stuck in a rut.

"American advertising is stuck in a rut," said Mr. Landey, who takes the title of strategic planning partner at both agencies.

Doug Jones as Jerry: Jerry is a door-to-door salesman who is stuck in a rut.

Why is it that whenever critics make cogent arguments against some attempt at innovation, they are accused of being stuck in a rut, out of touch etc?

WHEN equities are stuck in a rut, as they appear to be now, investors tend to say they are in a stock picker's market.

"You can get into a rut and think it's just one of those years," he said.

Even the space program has gotten into a rut, with nothing exciting going on.

She said that Americans had the right idea; they didn't get into a rut.

Earlier in the year I was concerned about that, how a rookie gets into a rut and kind of drops off.

"I got into a rut for a couple of weeks, a defensive slump," he said.

Maybe as a player you get into a rut, thinking you're going to get a certain amount of minutes every game no matter what.

She'd got into a rut, hadn't bothered with holidays at all.

Was I not perhaps getting into a rut?

It kept you from getting into a rut.

Nobody ever gets into a rut, there's an enthusiasm, a core group feeling that's always there for the music."

I got into a rut the first part of the season mainly because of my own stupidity.

The Giants had got into a rut, the offense had become predictable.

She asks how Linda and Jim are, since their relationship had gotten into a rut.

"We were getting into a rut here anyway."

You got into a rut, and they'd say, 'Come play volleyball.' "

Nobody ever gets into a rut.

"I have friends who are just home all the time and it seems they're they've gotten into a rut and don't know how to get out."

When Soriano has gotten into a rut, he has usually corrected himself quickly.

He'd got into a rut.

Gone when-" I shut up since I was getting into a rut.

Ms. DeMoss once held factory jobs, but in her years on welfare she got into a rut.

Instead he'd vacillated, got into a rut, and allowed their relationship to stagnate and rot like food left outside the fridge.

KCET had got into a rut of mounting weekly talk shows.

"You're getting into a rut.

"It's tough when you get into a rut like they have," Celtics Coach Doc Rivers said.