Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reality, Clinton's formula is a very moderate effort to reduce the deficit without disrupting the economy. Proposed spending cuts nip at the fringes of the government's massive spending package; huge items like entitlements remain untouched. New taxes, while very visible, amount to only a slap on the wrist. Energy duties are minuscule in comparison to those Europeans have to pay. Clinton's plan is hardly radical, and as it passes through Congress it will likely become even less...
...keep the score at 3-1, though, did not fit the occasion. Junior defender Sean McCann--who also scored just five points all season--powered a painful slap shot from the left side into...
...same people to assume that Blacks are inherently laid-back, rhythmic and athletic. Yet in spite of these inescapable dangers, Muhammad does not even recognize the possibility of reaching for such truth. Instead he condemns the presence of white faculty in the Afro-American studies department: "What a slap in the face to bring in the slave master's son or slave master's daughter and to tell of the history they helped destroy." Clearly, this condemnation is grounded in the implicit assumption that the truth is entirely subjective, that history will not be told the same...
This was just the beginning of a long night for goalie Eri Villiotte and the Crimson defense. Dartmouth controlled the puck for most of the game. It slipped into the crease, prowled behind the net and passed around the perimeter. Frequently, the Big Green hit bullet-like slap shots at Villiotte, who couldn't possibly stop the barrage...
...Magic's solution is an "intelligent" messaging system called Telescript, which has won the backing of an impressive list of computer and ( communications companies. In Telescript, electronic messages contain little computer programs that can guide the words, sounds or pictures through the thicket of interlocking computer networks. You just slap a name or address on a message and fire it off. Either it goes all the way to the recipient's personal computer (not merely to, say, MCI Mail's computer) or you are alerted that something has gone wrong...