Word: nailed
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...We’re going to fight it tooth and nail,” McMullen said...
...also under attack in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies are waging a guerrilla campaign in the south and east of the country, with rocket attacks on U.S. bases becoming an almost daily affair. And in the Philippines last Wednesday, a U.S. soldier was killed by a nail bomb thrown from a motorcycle in an attack blamed on the radical Islamist Abu Sayyaf group, whose operations have been the focus of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts there...
...official China News Service. The charges are unclear, but Yang, a flower-seed tycoon worth an estimated $900 million, recently acknowledged publicly that he owed the Chinese government some $1.2 million in taxes. Tax evasion by China's fat cats is a national scandal, and Beijing is keen to nail some high-profile deadbeats...
...incidents across the disputed territory. The dead included seven members of India's Border Security Force, whose jeep was blown up by a land mine. The election is scheduled to end on Oct. 8. PHILIPPINES Abu Sayyaf Strikes Security patrols were stepped up in the southern Philippines after a nail bomb killed an American soldier and two Filipinos. The blast, outside a bar near a Philippine army base in the city of Zamboanga, injured at least 21 people. A Filipino motorcyclist who was carrying the bomb was among the dead. Although no-one claimed responsibility for the attack, Philippine police...
...Rush Hour 2, Ratner now helms a decidedly different sort of action as he takes the reins from Ridley Scott (Hannibal). With Edward Norton as the retired FBI agent who returns to the Bureau to catch a family-slaughtering psychopath (the dashing Ralph Fiennes, believe it or not), this nail-biting psycho-thriller looks to outperform its predecessors...