Lost in the celebration of those halcyon Charleston days is that the era spanning 1920 (when the 18th Amendment became law) to 1934 (when the amendment was repealed) was marked by raging culture wars, rampant xenophobia, political upheaval, and threats of death or worse that came more often via poisonous industrial-strength alcohol masquerading as low-grade liquor than the rat-a-tat-tat of a Tommy gun.
Instant messaging, that rat-a-tat chat technology that is catching up toe-mail in popularity, still hasn't overcome a critical hurdle that e-mail cleared years ago: utter incompatibility among rival brands.
But Pakistan's refusal to play appears to be a tit-for-tat response after India said they would not take part in a Test and one-day series in Pakistan in May.
The trial heard that Mr Greene's killing was a result of a spiralling tit-for-tat war between two groups of young men from a small area of north-west London.
If McConnell tries to knock out a Democratic nominee tit-for-tat, Democrats won't accept a four-member commission, says Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
DSU's recommended penalties are structured, tit-for-tat is a likely outcome.
It was the latest in a string of tit-for-tat murders over the past few months that have placed strain on a ceasefire deal signed in 2002.
The speculation on the street is that it was a tit-for-tat assassination between rival gangs.
Canadian designer Tat Chao unveiled a nifty " Bipolar" lamp that's made from a pair of discarded wine glasses.
In the 1930s, the Smoot-Hawley tariff provoked tit-for-tat responses and a collapse of world trade.
"For the first time, we are getting into a tit-for-tat syndrome, " he said.
Adarsh Sinha of Barclays Capital thinks the Swiss move will not be the start of a tit-for-tat round of devaluations.
Fears that the Japanese might resort to a tit-for-tat devaluation of the yen to boost exports have contributed to currency devaluations elsewhere.
But the first country to send a missile, even a non-nuclear one, could trigger a tit-for-tat set of reprisals that both sides could find hard to stop.
If trade policies are deemed to hurt a tradig partner, a trade war can erupt, in which countries ratchet up protectionist policies in a tit-for-tat manner, ultimately leading to economic slowdown.
The Russian deputy foreign minister on Tuesday vowed a "targeted and appropriate" response to Britain's decision to expel four Russian diplomats in a tit-for-tat battle over the murder investigation of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko.
"Clearly some supporters feel aggrieved that a song they believe to be no more than a tit-for-tat 'wind up' of Celtic supporters should be singled out in this way and merit the attention of police, governments and anti-racism organisations, " said Bain.
Paige, who is now a business development director for the sports arm of an engineering firm, is also not convinced by the effectiveness of the boycott, which came close to destroying the Olympic movement and led to a tit-for-tat snub of the 1984 Los Angeles Games by the Soviet Union and its allies.
There is a regular tit-for-tat exchange between the governments of Peru and Bolivia based on their political differences.
No one really mentions the TAT acquisition that RIM made a couple of years ago.
Not only did that avert a round of tit-for-tat devaluations.
Each side had a man dismissed in that last encounter, while Diouf, Brown and Celtic manager Neil Lennon engaged in a bit of tit-for-tat mud-slinging in the days that followed.
In April, Sudan and South Sudan slipped close to all-out war with a series of tit-for-tat air raids and ground attacks that prompted the African Union and Security Council to push the two sides to act.
But today polarisation is almost instant, thanks in part to the growing role of non-negotiable issues such as abortion in American politics, in part to the rise of a media industry based on outrage, and in part to a cycle of tit-for-tat demonisation.
By describing the coalition agreement as a purely contractual affair, Mr Clegg inaugurated a new era of tit-for-tat politicking.
Both India and Pakistan are proven nuclear powers after last year's tit-for-tat tests, and it is believed they may each possess a small number of nuclear warheads.
The tit-for-tat claim asserts that the Agent said she could impose no penalty or a 40% penalty depending on whether the taxpayer gave her what she wanted.
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