That's a huge nut to crack -- so huge that itty-bitty markets are of no interest.
While an engineering student, your correspondent spent one summer crack-testing engine parts in an airline's workshops in Spain.
He's got quite a few nuts to crack--the biggest, ironically, Iranian expatriates who control the pistachio industry in America.
Now the commission is doing what it can on its own authority to recommend shorter sentences for most federal crack-cocaine offenses.
Despite this, we still hear from deficit-scared pundits on the right that our deficits signal a horrifying crack-up in our future.
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Thanks in no small part to the debacle in Europe, in a very few recent weeks, we have witnessed the great green crack-up.
If that number seems reassuringly low in a population of 313 million, consider that about 6 million other crack-ups occur each year without a death, resulting in some 3 million injuries.
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As for the other incidents that have beset the type over the past few months -- a fan shaft failure on an engine, an oil leak, a windshield crack -- all can safely be put down to teething problems.
The purchase will provide Toshiba with insider access to the hard-to-crack electric-utility procurement process.
He reiterated that the policy was put in place to prevent a "tragic crisis in society" -- crack babies -- and that unlike the 10 plaintiffs, most women chose treatment over jail.
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We understand the urge to take a quick snap of a show to prove that you were there -- all those "likes" and comments on Instagram are like the crack in the aforementioned crack pipe -- but must you hold your iPhone above your head the entire show, blindly shooting into the ether?
Few are yet desperate enough to sell at what Mr Mudd's crack number-crunchers think they are worth.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water mixed with fine sand and chemicals deep into oil and gas wells to crack gas-bearing rock.
Or the Crack Intelligence Co-Coordinating Unit, set up with the blessing of the home secretary in 1989 but also dissolved a few years later - unwisely in the view of many who had been tracking the damage inflicted by the newly-emerging drug, crack cocaine?
Simon said Wal-Mart will also give its part-time workers first crack at its full-time jobs, should they want one.
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The polymers return to a pre-defined shape when heated to a certain temperature, and, when damage is detected, an infrared laser sends light through the network to the damaged area, triggers the shape-memory, and commands the area to repair the crack or tear -- regaining up to 96 percent of its original strength.
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Chief executives are the only non-doctors who crack the list of top-10 earners.
Gulbis served it out to win 5-7 6-3 6-4 to earn a crack at the 11-time grand slam champion.
You can take it on the body - sometimes you crack, sometimes you don't - but on the head is the worst place to be hit.
He was soon able to crack into well-known programs, where he found hidden messages left by their creators.
And I spent time with Carnegie Mellon computer-security specialists, who were testing a clever way of coaching people to create harder-to-crack digital passwords.
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The super bears believe in a euro-crack up, the U.S. going to single A or even triple B credit rating, and maybe even defaulting.
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In Texas, regulars come by the store that sells TSA items and check with employees on shipment schedules to get first crack at top-brand sunglasses and fine watches.
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In a case that could crack open bankruptcy-trust records for most California defendants, an appeals court in May allowed lawyers for Volkswagen to obtain settlement records from Buddy Rusk Sr.
While both Apple and Microsoft started with the affluent, Google will be trying to crack the smart-phone market from the bottom up, industry sources say (Google declined to comment for this story).
If you're holding out on upgrading from a 3G to a 3G S, go ahead and crack a smile -- because for now, anyway, this is one spec bump that means precisely zilch in the real world.
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Monster.com and other job-listing sites offer a crack at commitment to a full-time job.
Crack open a set-top box or a DVD player and you'll almost certainly find a MIPS chip.
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