Word: whacking
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...good lawyer, you can whack a landlord for a good amount of money,” Haller says. “But I feel bad whacking people, I don’t feel so bad hitting the bank...
...research note, analysts at Morgan Stanley pointed to growing redemptions from university endowments that have found their portfolio allocations out of whack, thanks to plunging stock prices - a point reinforced today when Paul Tudor Jones's Tudor Investment Corp announced that it had suspended redemptions on one of its hedge funds...
...sturdy in Casino, Craig is near-mute here. This Bond is a crippled titan, "blinded by inconsolable rage," as M gently puts it; he shows as much emotion as a crash-test dummy and endures nearly as much damage. But since MI6 currently has more turncoat agents than a Whack-a-Mole game, and Bond is the functioning spy M can trust, he's obliged to save the world on his own, while other branches of the government want him captured or killed...
...SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Infighting Accuracy Rate Momentum Expectation-Setting ACTION The unseemly spectacle of anonymous Palin allies' criticizing her handling by McCain staffers, followed by McCain aides sliming Palin as a "diva" and "whack job," was too alluring for the media to ignore. In comparison, Obama's arch remark that Joe Biden can be given to "rhetorical flourishes" looked positively friendly. Another typical week in the message wars. Democrats methodically fired laser-guided missiles at McCain (that he's in lockstep with Bush...
Unnamed McCain aide(s) •Palin is called a "diva" with no "relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else" by •Palin is called "a whack job" by •Palin is described as "going rogue...