Word: slams
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Every summer while I was growing up, my parents took me to the Jersey shore, where I'd plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...
...President Bush will not be able to slam right wing ideological judges down the throat of a closely-divided Senate," Linsky wrote...
...Linkin Park's debut came with instructions, they might read something like this: 1. Argue with your mother. 2. Stomp off to your room. 3. Slam the door, crank up the stereo and sulk. Fitting this much angst into one album should be impossible, but this southern California quintet (vocalists Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson and DJ Joseph Hahn) proves conventional wisdom wrong on track after track of an album destined for heavy rotation in the stereos of disaffected suburbanites everywhere...
...Theoretically, investors will like most of their choices. Essentially, the plan (dubbed "Project Grand Slam") would be a financial quarantining of its ailing long-distance operation, which would get its own tracking stock and operate as a separate retail arm, according to reports. AT&T's wireless unit and cable television operation would each be spun off as an independent company over the next 12 to 24 months. The company's biggest and most profitable unit, the corporate-minded Business Services department, would become the new AT&T, and coordinate brand-licensing and commercial agreements with the other three...
...this ballclub is its pitching. The lefty-lefty duo of NLCS MVP Hampton and Leiter is dominant. When it's time to go to the bullpen, nobody is deeper than the Mets, who can toss out Rick White, Turk Wendell, John Franco and a surly Armando Benetiz to slam the door...