Word: dudding
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...catch jai alai on her desktop is not going to watch the same game on tape-delay anyway. At the very least you'll be able to make up some revenue on cable. And part of the reason these Olympics have been such a dud is that few people are excited about them. Going live might actually help prime time, by sending the signal that the Games are worth staying up for, altering one's routine for - that something special is going...
...make that hardly visible) running mate even got off a good one at the expense of his opposite, who's been making Cheney look like the dud of the slate. "One observer of the military," Cheney said Wednesday, "had this to say last year: 'Our military faces readiness problems,' he cautioned, 'including falling recruitment, and retention in critical skill areas; aging equipment that costs more to keep operating at acceptable levels of reliability; a need for more support services for a force with a high percentage of married personnel; and frequent deployments...
...that into mechanical energy would take an external power source. Even if the machine were friction-free, the wheel couldn't grind grain. That would require energy beyond what it took to keep the wheel itself going. No good, says the first law, and Fludd's invention was a dud...
William Friedkin's 1985 film To Live and Die in LA was a critical and box office dud. This weekend, the Harvard baseball team starred in three sequels anyway...
These are powerful inducements that must be weighed against individual needs. The immediate tax bite may not be worth it if you have to use 401(k) assets to pay the bill. And the math doesn't work if your company's stock has been a dud. The diversification issue looms large as well. Rolling into an IRA allows you to sell the stock without triggering a tax liability and then buy mutual funds to reduce risk...