Word: whacks
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Pedro, meanwhile, was cursed by a lack of run support all season, receiving a grand total of just seven runs in his six losses this season. Carl Everett, whose slugging skills were supposed to finally replace the bat of Mo Vaughn, was revealed to be little more than a whack job, whose off-the-field tantrums overshadowed his team-leading home run total. Perhaps the four teams that released Carl prior to his joining the Red Sox knew something we didn...
...people having getting together to have a good time no matter how grim their circumstances. That much is summed up in the words of one pioneering DJ carried in a video installation: "If there was negativity and fights breaking out at your party, that means your DJ was whack...
...string of luck for me," Giordano said. "[The cancellations have] thrown my whole schedule out of whack, and that's kind of annoying...
...that affects 6 million Americans. RSD starts with a minor injury to an arm or leg--say, a twisted ankle or a bruise--but quickly blossoms into a strange syndrome in which the sympathetic nerves (the ones responsible for temperature control, sweating and blood flow) go so out of whack that blowing air across the skin is enough to trigger burning pain. The injured extremity and surrounding tissue can become discolored and, eventually, immobile. Now researchers report two experimental treatments. In one, doctors restore motor activity to the limb with medication continuously delivered through a pump placed under the skin...
...generic-drug makers feel as if they're playing a game of 50-state Whack-a-Mole, never knowing where another amendment or rule pushed by their rivals is going to pop up. Take Illinois: last year Barr and its allies persuaded legislators to dissolve a state panel that had delayed marketing of some FDA-approved generics, but Governor George Ryan vetoed the bill. Still, all sides worked out a compromise to give immediate approval to most generics. Barr's lobbyists relaxed. Too soon, it turns out. A month ago, an amendment was quietly tacked onto a new bill...