Word: lowing
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Thomas Solomon Jr. is no monster. If he was trying to mimic the other school terrorists who came before him, he did a poor job. He had access to high-caliber weapons in his stepfather's gun cabinet, yet he chose a low-powered .22 rifle to shoot up his high school. He was a practiced shot, yet he aimed low. He was literally a Boy Scout, a pleasant 15-year-old kid who went to church and didn't care for Goth life or Marilyn Manson or Duke Nukem or any of the other cultural markers we have come...
...Solomon's rifle were firecrackers, just like the ones used in last year's senior prank. Solomon maintained a dazed expression as he began randomly firing into the school's indoor commons. "He wasn't aiming," says junior Ryan Rosa, one of his victims. "He was holding it down low... He was not chasing people." In other words, Solomon went about his work almost reluctantly, shooting literally from the hip with a pump-action sport...
According to McCartney, Boyd's linguistic gift as a political storyteller was closely connected to his "low key" nature...
Freeman and Wilson both said they predict that if the national economy takes a turn for the worse, employment rates for low-skilled workers will go with...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Data"People see 4.1 percent growth and they start thinking about inflation again, no matter how low it seems to be now," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "And after yesterday's rally, there's a mood that this may be the last chance to get out." But that doesn't fully explain the run on the big Dow industrials, which have lately been favorites in times of trouble. Kadlec thinks some of that can be blamed on the holiday. "There's often a lightening of positions before a long weekend," he says, "so traders...