Word: hammering
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...valueless options. This has always been a highly volatile industry, but recent events have been on the scale of a virtual earthquake. Here's a sample of the casualty list for just two days last week: More than a third of Seattle-based Hardware.com's workers went under the hammer. Furniture.com in Framingham, Mass., laid off 80 employees--that's 41% of its work force. Streaming video site Pseudo.com axed 58 jobs in New York City. Planned IPOs were canned by firms including Furniture.com electronics site 800.com in Portland, Ore., and video-delivery site Kozmo.com in New York City. BBQ.com...
...hand-to-hand combat in half a dozen or so key states, Gore strategists say, and that is where they think their candidate will have the advantage. The terrain of issues varies--guns in New Jersey, the economy in Michigan, the environment in California--and the plan is to hammer each one hard enough to put Gore over the top. "It's not the wave but the strange riptides of this election" that will determine its outcome, says a Gore strategist. At the Bush camp, ever more confident and ever more disdainful of all things Gore, no one is intimidated...
...focused on words rather than actions, and despite his stepping down, even Haider himself does not seem to be able to remain silent for a while. He called French President Jacques Chirac a "pocket Napoleon." He accused Alfred Gusenbauer, head of the moderate Social Democrats, of eating with a hammer and sickle instead of fork and knife. Haider even claimed to have "reunited" Bill and Hillary Clinton after Monica Lewinsky "separated" them, since both Clintons condemned Haider's party's participation in the Austrian coalition government...
...report includes a list of individuals--including Orchard, Lewis and Illingworth--who could sit on a new "Task Force on Dance at Harvard," that would hammer out the details of a fifth undergraduate Mainstage slot...
Having said that, I should confess the first concert I ever saw without my parents was a Hammer one, back in the days when he was M.C. Hammer. I was young. My friend had won a radio call-in contest. How was I to know this would affect my life in the future...