Word: hammer
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...while this is an important debate, it’s largely one for academics and engineers, who need to hammer out the details of what passes for acceptable network management. But the FCC’s seemingly obsequious effort to reassure Silicon Valley special interests—like Google—that enough fast lanes will be preserved for their latest application is in stark contrast to the war on civil rights and diversity that the FCC has declared of late...
...task. Although women and girls do not fight, they assist in collecting materials for the weapons. Five bow-and-arrow construction groups of 10 members each are scattered around the town. Weapon-makers first cut the head off a 4-inch nail, which is then chiseled with a heavy hammer into a sharp edge. The nail is then coiled to fit onto a bamboo stick. A groove is cut into the bottom of the stick in order to add paraffin paper wings for the arrow to have better flight. Sometimes, the arrow is dipped into frog or snake poison before...
...could tap their home equity to pay off credit card bills, declining home values have cut off that safety valve for many consumers. The result: a recent uptick in customer defaults. Meanwhile industry profits have risen from $27.4 billion in 2003 to $40.7 billion in 2007, according to RK Hammer...
...Nilson Report. Consolidation allows competitors to be less competitive: from 1995 to 2005 the average late fee soared 162% from $12.83 to $33.64, according to CardTrak.com. Fees now account for 39% of issuers' revenue, up from 28% in 2000 (interest accounts for the rest), according to card advisor RK Hammer. The industry is so buoyant that transaction-giant Visa is planning an IPO this spring that could raise more than $10 billion in capital...
...play in California. President George W. Bush failed miserably there in 2000 and 2004; so did Bob Dole in 1996 and Bush's father in 1992. But they were mostly dealing from the old Republican deck, fashioned most recently by Bush strategist Karl Rove--jazz up the base, hammer the opposition...