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Certainly tech stocks were no slam dunk in the '50s, when transistors replaced the vacuum tube, or in the '60s, when microchips supplanted simple transistors. Those developments gave rise to the upstart Intel, while the shares of companies like Transitron Electronics melted away...
...stain brown, with a mood reminiscent of the 1930s horror movies, Bruce Wayne becomes a creepy, eccentric playboy who flies around in his "bat-gyro." Another stand-out, Ellen Fornay and Ariel Bordeaux imagine "Wonder Woman's Day Off," when she skips out for a cappuccino and a poetry slam, with her big-boots-and-tiara-look fitting right into the downtown hipster scene...
...National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), which handles 90% of arbitration cases, is hiring more staff to help sift through all the Internet rubble. During the past five months, new claims were up 27% over the same period last year. Securities attorney Jim Shapiro has landed 70 "slam-dunk" cases since running newspaper ads in March that asked, "Have you lost more than $100,000 in NASDAQ stocks?" His argument is simple: even if customers clamored for more tech, their brokers had a responsibility to apply the brakes...
...very serious. When he pinned it down with his heel, so that it couldn't continue to maul him, it started to throw its body, slam its body back and forth, to try to maul him, to try to eat his foot. It took a piece of the top of his foot off completely, like probably a 4-inch long by an inch and a half, maybe two inches wide, all the flesh. It severed the main tendon to his big toe, the main tendon to the next toe, crushed the casing to the joints that join...
...from the cage door where the zookeeper's trying to get out and the animal's still trying to attack Phil. It's shoving its claws and its paws through the iron grill on the cage door. The zookeeper gets out and locks it and this dragon continues to slam its body against the door to try to get out and continue to attack him. Its underbelly is slamming against this metal grill about two feet from Phil's head...