Word: slugging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...indeed, he is your son, which is hard to believe--playing video games with his friends. Your living room is strewn with Dorito crumbs and other detritus that doesn't bear close examining. Needless to say, the lawn has not been mowed as promised. How would you like to slug him? Or rather, how much would you like to slug him? You know you shouldn't. But what if by slugging him, you could actually reduce the total amount of child abuse in the world? Wouldn't that be a good thing...
...withdrawal, after all, would mean abandoning many of its own objectives, fatally weakening the moderate Arab regimes it has vowed to protect, abandoning some of the world's largest oil reserves to be fought over by jihadists, Baathists and proxies of Iran, while Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds slug it out on the under-card of what could quickly become a regional war. Right now, the U.S. presence may be all that is holding Iraq together, but letting it fall apart would deeply damage a far wider range of Washington's interests...
...availability. Now it's a market of supply and there's a lot more competition, so businesses have to be much more customer-focused." Sridevi Rao, an associate vice president at the research firm IMRB International in Mumbai, agrees. As new retail, telecom, credit card and airline businesses slug it out in the booming Indian market, she says, "players in these sectors are still in the process of standardizing service delivery while at the same time having to put up with strong competition from multiple service providers. In such a scenario it is inevitable that feedback is crucial to benchmark...
...equipped himself with an American M-16 rifle and a revolver. Using a private corridor to return to the dining room, he barged in, firing a burst that killed his parents and shooting 12 others in the room ... He then turned the revolver on himself, firing a .38-cal. slug up through his temple, the bullet exiting the other side...
...power Bushnells, he could read room numbers on the motel doors 70 yards distant, and the same strength on his Redfield scope would make human figures seem only 30 ft. away. The scope was mounted on a .30-06 Remington Gamemaster, which was engineered so that its 150-grain slug would lose less than .01 inch in altitude and reach the motel balcony with 2,370 pounds of knockdown power--enough to drop a rhinoceros. However, the odd angle of an occluding building next door meant the convict could fire the long rifle only by leaning out his window...