Word: slapping
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...Slap Shots...
...there ever was a time for Microsoft employees to slap their boss with a reality check, this is it. The antitrust trial is on a six-week hiatus. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson urged the two sides to come up with a settlement in the interim. Intel settled its suit with the FTC last week before the case even went to court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence...
...point, Chase recalls, Tony was supposed to be angry at his nephew-employee, and the scene called for the elder Soprano to give the younger a light slap. Gandolfini thought it would be truer to have Tony go for his throat. "That taught me a lot about my character," Chase reflects. "It helped keep me honest...
Joel Stein's piece in which he called the Adopt-a-Highway program the lamest charity he'd ever heard of [NOTEBOOK, March 1] was a slap in the face to those of us who care about the state of the environment. This program provides money and manpower to help clean littered stretches of highway. Maybe Stein enjoys seeing the rotting wrappers that blow across the endless roadways, but most of us do not. BRANDICE HARTSOCK Blacksburg...
...obviously, disgusted that this motion has even been proposed," the woman assaulted by Douglas wrote in an e-mail message. "This counter-motion would essentially give a convicted sex offender a slap on the wrist and nothing more serious than withdrawal on his record...