Word: whacks
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...Besides, the courts have been kind to Bush when he's needed them, and the lawyers - led by a strange-bedfellow coalition of the ACLU, the conservative Southeast Legal Foundation, and whomever McConnell hires - are lining up to take a whack at the constitutionality of whatever Bush signs...
...Tennessee Republican Bill Frist of the non-severability amendment, argued that McCain-Feingold's three main components - the soft-money ban, the raising of hard-money limits, and Snowe-Jeffords - all went together. Fellow defector Robert Torricelli concurred: Without any one of the three, the system goes out of whack...
...Third, there's the courts. Severable or not, the lawyers - led by a bedfellow coalition of the ACLU, the conservative Southeast Legal Foundation, and whomever McConnell hires - are lining up to take a whack at the constitutionality of whatever Bush signs into law. One lawyer, James Bopp Jr., has been doing this sort of thing on the state level for years, and he's got 30 knockouts in 33 decisions...
...suspense on Sunday night had an almost sadomasochistic tingle: Would Dr. Melfi ask Tony Soprano to whack the creep who raped her? Alas, duty precedes pleasure, so we had to sit through the Academy Award ceremony - it's mandatory, even for "Sopranos" fans - before watching the episode that aired last evening. (And having seen it, right after shooing our Oscar Night guests home, I can confidently predict that Burt Young will nab an Emmy for Best Phlegm...
...when the banks were on the verge of collapse, the government authorized spending 70 trillion yen (nearly $600 billion) to shore them up. Trouble is, the government hasn't forced banks to reconcile bad debts, which now total at least $246 billion. Meanwhile, corporations are beginning to whack away at the cross-shareholdings, the financial bindings of the old business networks. These reforms are necessary. But they are also a big part of why the stock market is reeling, as corporations and banks alike sell off their investments. That process is expected to accelerate this week and next because...