Word: bump
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talked tough. He lectured the bad guys - Syria, Iran, Hamas, etc. - and promised to stay the course in Iraq. He invoked 9/11. He said he hoped for a diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis with Iran but offered no new means to achieve it. He was Presidential. Expect another bump up in the polls...
...spreadsheets or Word documents, accelerating and decelerating until you get where you want to be. The scroll wheel actually engages and disengages the free spin depending on what application you're in, and what you're doing. If you are inching through a news story, you get the familiar bump-by-bump ratchet action, but if you land on your friend's mile-long blog and start scrolling, the ratchet bumps go away and the wheel's spin becomes Lance Armstrong smooth...
...Local villagers opposed to the development will sometimes bring you back down with a bump - they've been known to set up roadblocks and demand tolls from guests - but general manager Richard Neo will come to your rescue by golf buggy. Perhaps he should treat the village to a round of gui shi massages as well...
...style houses feature lovely wooden bathtubs for two, while the spa offers traditional gui shi hot-stone massages that will have you feeling even closer to heaven than the property's 3,600-m elevation. Local villagers opposed to the development will sometimes bring you back down with a bump - they've been known to set up roadblocks and demand tolls from guests - but general manager Richard Neo will come to your rescue by golf buggy. Perhaps he should treat the village to a round of gui shi massages as well...
...been a favorite of--and, some insiders say, a possible successor to--former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Halutz at first impressed Israelis with his aviator glasses and Top Gun swagger. Once asked how it felt to drop a bomb on people, he replied, "I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel." Such myopia may have worked for him in the cockpit, but may be a liability in politics...