Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sears' biggest enemy right now isn't the competition as much as the economy. Any recession could deal the company a double blow: first by hammering sales and then by increasing its credit-card delinquencies, which are already running at an uncomfortably high rate of 5%. Yet Martinez says Sears could recoup any losses simply by beating up on competitors. "Should we encounter a recession, there's still an awful lot of fragile retailers who are at very high risk of failure," he says. "That represents a market-share opportunity for us." Sears bullying the competition--the Big Store really...
...think if you do this tonight, this will go down as a historic blow to students by the U.C.," he said...
...Saints struck again to make the score 2-0, six minutes after the DiFrancesco tally, but this turned out to be merely a kick in the stomach instead of a knockout blow...
Five days later, Russia sustained a less conspicuous public relations blow when officials admitted that two of the country's spy satellites had recently fallen from orbit, leaving the military without any space-based reconnaissance capabilities. What raised eyebrows was not the loss of the satellites--they weren't expected to operate indefinitely--but Russia's inability to replace them. In the wake of the Mars debacle, this was enough to cause observers inside Russia and out to wonder aloud just how deep the space program's troubles run and whether any technological solution can fix what ails...
...during the exchanges about domestic violence. As Petrocelli wove for the jury a narrative of Simpson's life and times with Nicole, he hammered away at their tempestuous relationship--one that resulted in calls to police and a no-contest plea to spousal battery in 1989. With an enormous blow-up of Nicole's face, cut and purpled with bruises, looming on a huge screen behind the former football star, the lawyer quizzed him about numerous other incidents in which witnesses say Nicole was hit by her husband. And Petrocelli walked Simpson through some landmarks on his former wife...