Word: fisting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
...concept-interchangeable and a dime a dozen. Ironic, isn't it? They're not bad people, these Pearl Girls. They're just, well, intolerable. But their reign over campuses like Harvard, urban meccas like New York and popular culture is indisputable. Snotty girls rule with attitude and an iron fist. Not only will they be the next editors of Jane and Vanity Fair, but they will also marry rich investment bankers, demand lifetime memberships at exclusive country clubs, buy homes in the Hamptons, and eventually be able to tell the difference between brands of caviar and champagne...
Accommodation or deterrence? Open hand or iron fist? Peace now or peace through strength? Rarely does history settle such debates as decisively and mercilessly as it has this...
...late-night TV, Conan fantasized about a 24-hour breastfeeding channel. Madonna, however, clearly would not be a subscriber; frustrated by the pains of lactation, she pounded her fist during a recent interview to yell, "There will be life after breast feeding...
...Cacak drove their excavator straight up to the front of the parliament and swarmed up the stairs wielding sticks, metal bars, a reaping saw, even a coat hanger in the fist of one elderly man. If they expected a fight, the other side was too half-hearted to give them one. By 2:30, reluctant policemen threw down their riot gear, went over to the demonstrators' side and ceded the building to the people. The mob caved in the bolted doors and set offices ablaze, turning Belgrade into a smoky spectacle...