Word: slap
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...city, Terence Hallinan, says, "They've done everything they're supposed to do. They haven't done any of the things they're accused of. Here a week after the Attorney General makes a statement, they go ahead and make this raid. I think it's just a slap in Obama's face...
Ruiz Mateos made the angry statements as he announced that Mexico would slap tariffs across 90 U.S. products that were worth $2.4 billion in trade in 2007. He pulled no punches about his goal: the tariffs were designed to hit as many different U.S. states as possible. Going into effect on March 19, the tariffs of 10% to 45% affected goods ranging from onions and shaving cream to fruit juice and red wine. There was even a tariff on Christmas trees, which may not have worried the growers too much because they don't sell many in March...
...wider, the chance of renewed armed conflict grows stronger. "To the military, we [ethnic minorities] are like mosquitoes," says a young Arakanese Buddhist monk, who participated in the crushed antigovernment uprising of September 2007 and chafes at Burmese discrimination against his people. "We buzz in their ear, and they slap at us and don't care if they kill us." But, he adds, "there are many mosquitoes." In the end, it may be the foreign participants in this new Great Game, unschooled in how to navigate ethnic complexities, who will get bitten...
...there’s this year’s loss to the Engineers, in which top-seeded Harvard shockingly found itself down, 2-0, but then clawed its way back and forced overtime, only to see its comeback efforts nullified by a Laura Gersten slap shot in sudden death...
...Crimson extended its lead in the final period after freshman Daniel Moriarty fired a one-time slap shot past Scrivens...