Word: blows
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...Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating photographer who refused to obey orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing thugs, pesky mosquitoes and static-stricken telephone lines. "Nearly every correspondent has his story of being robbed at gunpoint, usually by preteen kids," reports Wilde...
...listens intently, asking occasional questions in a gravelly twang. Nothing in his courteous demeanor suggests, I am the keeper, you are the kept. "You understand that even if it's a small problem, it may be the biggest problem they have," he says later. "You don't just blow anyone...
...those who commit the crimes either belong to groups that barely deserve to be called extremist or are lone operators. Officials admit that a ban also forces the more organized groups underground, making it tougher to track them. Nonetheless, political scientist Gerd Mielke maintains that the ban "is a blow against right-wing extremists in making their activities illegal. Much more important is its function as symbolic politics, as drawing a line for the public." Not enough of that defining, of what is acceptable and what is not, has been done thus far, he says, adding that the bans will...
...their eyes to clients' shenanigans. So says the U.S. government, which claims a "landmark" victory in making that case. Ernst & Young, one of the Big Six accounting firms, agreed to pay a near record fine of $400 million to settle a slew of cases charging it with failing to blow a whistle on S&Ls it audited. For example, say the feds, the firm failed to challenge fictitious sales of real estate made by the now defunct Lincoln Savings & Loan in order to inflate its reported profits. Ernst & Young might have been socked $1 billion if it had lost...
Several undergraduates said yesterday that the loss of Symonds would be a grave blow to student theater on campus...