Klout employees recently neutralized a tactic they dubbed "the one-night stand, " in which people follow lots of people on Twitter, hoping they'll follow them back, then dump them a day later.
On Wednesday the European Commission unveiled major proposals to reform the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) to end the system of catch quotas that encourages fishermen to dump fish back into the sea.
With little inertia, friction or drag, the wheel can be spun up to speed in a trice, and then made to dump its rotational energy back into the car's transmission in seconds.
The notion that somehow that Senator Clinton is going to be immune from attack or that there's not a whole dump truck that they can back up in a match-up between her and John McCain, I think is just not true.
The towering fear that Japanese investors would dump assets around the world and convert proceeds back into the yen driving its value ever-higher turned out to be bogus.