Word: kiboshing
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...Bush put the kibosh on them even before the slowdown kicked in - too rich- skewed, and he had a bigger tax cut to sell - but he might at least consider renewing his promise to tackle them next year. This was largely a business-led boom, it's been a business-led slowdown, and it has to be a business-led recovery...
...great thing about Friday is it's the last day of August, and the last day before the three-day Labor Day weekends puts the kibosh on this turgid trading summer and brings the real money back from the Hamptons and into play. July factory orders and the Chicago Purchasing Managers' manufacturing report for August are expected to show that sector in continuing decline, though there's some hope that the trend is headed back up to zero after last week's durable goods number. Dare we look for another Friday pop? Well, on a day likely to be peppered...
...Winners NOR MALENA HASSAN Malaysian sets record by spending a month in a cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come...
...went, for a period of a half hour or so, during which you could see a consensus developing as, network by network, analysts hit on SCOTUS passages that more or less put the kibosh on further recounts. Which is not to say there wasn't plenty of room for interpretation. By 11 or so, there was agreement that it was all but over. Or that it wasn't! By just past 11, MSNBC was, at least on and off, calling George W. Bush the "President-elect." Or he wasn't! Maybe Al Gore would wait to answer...
...that, earlier this week he visited Beijing, where he and President Jiang Zemin vowed to fight together against a U.S. missile program they believe undermines their security. And the energetic Russian leader has already sewn up much of Western Europe in his campaign to urge Washington to put the kibosh on the system...