Word: sword
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...announce it." Jimenez's family is one of dozens who have spoken to an attorney about challenging the new law on the grounds that it violates the state vehicle code, which says that sales from mobile caterers can only be regulated for public safety. "The county has created a Sword of Damocles," says Jimenez' attorney, Philip Greenwald. "They're trying to frighten [the taco truck drivers] out of business...
...gotten increasingly heated, Obama rarely attacks first. He took more than a week, for example, to hit Clinton after her chief strategist Mark Penn resigned following revelations that he had helped the Colombia government lobby for passage of a free trade deal Clinton opposed. "It's a double-edged sword for him. He's supposed to be new and different, and when he runs negative ads people say what's new and different about this?" said Congressman Jason Altmire, an undecided superdelegate from western Pennsylvania whose district went 66% for Clinton...
...matter how innovative Virgin's Airlines are, no matter how loudly Branson trumpets biofuel, every plane in the sky runs on the same stuff. The price of jet fuel has risen 69% in the past year, and Virgin's executives, like their rivals, lie under its sword. "Other than the recession and $110-a-barrel oil, I see nothing but opportunity," CEO Cush deadpans. He can't cost-cut his way out; the limits of that strategy are obvious. The big carriers have taken $15 billion in costs out since 2001 but are paying $17 billion more for fuel...
...high standards are a double-edged sword. Even as McCain railed against the system, he worked it, sometimes creating unseemly appearances of his own. As with many other Senators, some of McCain's biggest corporate donors were invariably the companies that sought his favor - firms like FedEx, AT&T and Qwest Communications. At one point, he even allowed Fred Smith, a friend who ran FedEx, to sponsor a book party for McCain's memoir Worth the Fighting...
...BATMAN In the past, a katana, a Japanese sword, was a samurai's soul. The warriors may be long gone, but the samurai spirit lives on--particularly among Japanese professional baseball players. Take the Seattle Mariners' All-Star center fielder Ichiro Suzuki. Between games, Ichiro gives his bat the katana treatment: keeping it protected in a sealed aluminum case. After every game, he takes it to his locker and shows his gratitude for its service by going through the ritual of cleaning...