Word: fisting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Then she clicks a series of sharp and accurate staples to a skirt pattern, pumps her fist and yells, "Huh! Yeah!" Mission accomplished, Venus can turn to goofing on her classmates. Jerry Hernandez, 19, is running around the classroom looking for his grade sheet, which Venus pulls from her purse, giggling...
...Shoreline Grill early that evening. As the family members made their way under dim lights to the restaurant, Bush's shoulders were more hunched than usual, his father looked as if he was suffering from an ulcer, and Barbara wore a smile tight as a fist. By then they knew the race was much closer than Rove had promised it would be. But it wasn't until the news that Gore had captured Florida appeared on a TV screen in the restaurant that the mood turned from grim to black...
...second half, the Berklee audience responded with a standing ovation filled with screams and whistles. Despite the audience's rather explicit requests for an encore, Rollins waved his fist in the air in a show of solidarity with his fans and hurried off without playing another note. Despite their apparent disappointment at being deprived of a bonus tune, one thing is for certain-no one sitting in that audience will ever consider 70 old again...
...room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...other hand (in the markets there's always another hand, usually a fist), if this really is an investing world again, where valuations and P/E ratios count, there are plenty of companies like high-flying Juniper Networks whose numbers are way too high. The companies have delivered on their earnings - that's why they're still flying - but by the usual, pre-bubble calculations these guys may not be quite done with their comeuppance...