Word: smackdowns
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...emissions controls--including business associations and industries that contributed millions to Bush's presidential race--decided late last month that the time had come to reverse the trend. Their campaign, which culminated in Bush's turnabout letter to Hagel and the others, had all the finesse of a smackdown, leaving O'Neill embarrassed and Whitman downright humiliated. Bush consoled her with an invitation to Camp David last weekend, shortly after she issued a wan statement declaring her own about-face on the issue. But European leaders who had accepted her assurances were furious, sources tell TIME. British Ambassador Christopher Meyer...
Soon everyone in the family was talking, but not to one another. Rumors flew. "I told Park, 'It's over; I want out,'" says Henschel. At this point, they called in Bright. She interviewed each person before gathering them for a three-day smackdown at an El Paso hotel. There was yelling about devious motives; there were tears. There was plenty of salsa...
...time it probably seemed that rock music was entirely yours, a thing that you could imagine grew out of your own fevered brain. Now a good slice of it apparently belongs to somebody else, somebody who likes gangsta rap and tinny kid pop and fight songs from WWF Smackdown! It doesn't help that this week the Grammy for album of the year may go to Eminem, the white rapper who wants to rape his mother, or at least he says he does on the album that may get the Grammy. Hey, you're probably old enough...
...Rock, because we need someone to put the smackdown on the Ad Board's candy asses...
...Ravens talk smack with the best of 'em. And after their defense sent Super Bowl favorite Tennessee home unexpectedly early, it's clear they lay the smackdown with the best...