Word: dragging
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Their message is short and sharp. The deficit is a powerful drag on the economy, they say, that will require a radical retrenchment on the entitlements -- mostly Social Security, Medicare and farm-support payments -- that make up more than half of all federal spending. In a new book, Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt & Restore the American Dream, Peterson holds out the bitter pill. "We can't do it without the middle class and we can't do it without going at entitlements head...
...drag you through a tortured description of all the machines we tried to use (i.e., broke), but I will issue this warning: unless you've always wondered what it feels like to be electrocuted, do not stand up on the electric foot vibrator. The sensation will be similar to that experienced by the little boy of electrical fence fame in "Jurassic Park...
KARL HENDRICKS TRIO Sings About Misery and Women CD/LP (Fiasco) Karl Hendricks' sadnesses are our reward. Miserable he may be, but he's not about to abandon his calling: that of writing spiffily memorable rock tunes, enough of them to drag us out of our grunge-induced lethargy up to the heights of Punk Rock Simplicity Mountain (which is where Nirvana thought they were leading us in the first place, right?). Most of Karl's songs have a crunchy college-rock beat (like Superchunk) though a few of the best, like "Romantic Stories from the War," are slow dissections...
...Garden of Scorpions" does drag towards the end, especially as the plot never gets any clearer...
...movies, TV shows and city streets. According to Parker V. Page, president of the Children's Television Resource and Education Center in San Francisco, preliminary research suggests that such games make children "more aggressive or more tolerant of aggression." That jibes with the experience of parents who will drag their kids away from a kick-boxing video game only to watch them start kick-boxing with each other in the backyard...