Word: nailing
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...pound relentlessly at their laptops, the procrastinator stares into space, calls up forgotten friends, performs elaborate and time-con-suming rituals such as nail-polish application, and stays at dinner from 5:30 p.m. until removal by the dining hall staff...
...Even they have messes and complications. Is there anybody with no secrets he or she would be tempted to commit perjury for? That's not a blanket excuse for perjury. But when the perjury was a your-secrets-or-your-life stickup staged by a prosecutor who couldn't nail his target on anything else, anyone with an ounce of imagination is tempted to excuse it. People who flesh out the Bill-and-Monica story rather than stripping it down do not imagine that Bill Clinton will go unpunished unless Congress takes him to the woodshed. He'll suffer plenty...
...Because Disney police will nail...
...think it's very likely to happen, because it will benefit the whole community," he said. "We have a lot of hardworking, energetic, efficient people in the organization that will fight tooth and nail to get this done...
...point of this anecdote is that today, no business-news amateur, as I was, could ever nail such a job at a first-rate publication. Once a backwater, business reporting, writing and editing have become smart, sophisticated and the high-walled province of the expert, although it took the better part of 100 years to reach that status...