Word: whack
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...deductions and a stable monetary system tethered to the price of gold. The present tax code, he says, is "a source of political pollution. If you don't clear it out, the weeds will grow back again." And if a new tax system throws revenue projections out of whack, too bad. "If Congress can't get spending under control, why punish the rest of the nation?" he asks. Forbes' second area of concern is education, where he embraces the Republican idea of replacing what he calls the "inbred monopolistic structure" of the public schools with voucher plans. But on other...
...would say about five out of 20 customers come from the new Kinko's," Welch said. "They say it's a nice place and everything but the prices are a little out of whack...
...cancellation of high school football games, making small children afraid to venture into their backyards -- and the threat is getting worse than ever. In some areas the rapidly spreading ants are crowding out (or killing) other insects, lizards, birds and small mammals, knocking natural ecosystems completely out of whack. Their mounds -- up to hundreds of them per acre -- have made many a farm field all but unplowable. And because the ants are strangely attracted to electric current, they have been known to chew through underground cables, disrupting everything from telephone service to airport runway lights and even starting fires...
...Penguins Whack Caps...
...Harvard found itself shorthanded nine times. The Crimson had good penalty killing all year, but playing a man down tired out the team and threw the forward lines out of whack...