Word: booting
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...because the Essential Inventions petitions include a clever stipulation that would require generic producers to contribute a small sum to an R&D fund for every pill they sell. Generic manufacturers could easily afford to make these contributions while offering cheaper prices and earning healthy profits to boot...
...plenty of teachers who were more encouraging or more cheerful. History classes with Sillery were a form of academic boot camp—rigorous, tiring, occasionally dispiriting, but highly beneficial in the long-run. Usually the papers she gave back were covered—and I mean covered—in green ink. She had essentially rewritten my essays, removing all the fluff and the pretentious (mixed) metaphors, leaving behind passable pieces of work. “Your writing suffers from adverbial overkill,” she explained. “And one day perhaps you’ll learn...
Turano can jog but can’t sprint, so if he played basketball, he might not be back now. But the boot of his skate extends well past his ankle to provide stability, and given the largely lateral nature of ice skating—as opposed to the up-and-down action of running and jumping on a court—he’s been able to get back into the lineup...
...addition, the chains, the hot wax, the boot-licking humiliation--they're all secondary for most BDSM practitioners. "Pain is a means to an end, but not the goal itself," says Federoff of the University of Ottawa. "People into this scene, all of them, will tell you that they want anesthetic when they go to the dentist as well as you do. What's different is what they use pain for." BDSM-ers like to use athletic analogies: marathoners endure the agony of the last miles so they can savor the accomplishment of finishing. SM, they say, is no different...
...jobs to China, resulted in the pan losing more than 50 seats in the 500-member lower house of Congress in last July's midterm elections. At the same time, Fox has had to watch his stock plummet in Washington, where he was once feted as Bush's cowboy-boot-wearing friend. But after Sept. 11, Bush turned his back on Fox's immigration- reform ideas as a threat to U.S. border security. Mexico was all but forgotten in the U.S. - until late 2002, when the country opposed Bush's Iraq war plan in the United Nations Security Council. Mexicans...