• Eventually, things break down and blow up.

    FORBES: 13 Little Things You're Doing to Sabotage Your Success

  • The fights are fierce but brief: the referee will step in and stop the bout quickly when a combatant is pinned down and taking blow after blow to the head.

    ECONOMIST: Sport and the media are natural bedfellows

  • Back on July 27th, I wrote about how surprised I was to find shares of Power-One (PWER), a provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions such as photovoltaic inverters used in solar power applications, trade down after reporting blow-out second quarter results.

    FORBES: Explain This One, Part 2

  • We can pounce down with a killing blow when landing, or we can swoop around the area (think Batman in Arkham Asylum), alternately avoiding and returning fire with police gondolas.

    FORBES: Review: 'BioShock: Infinite' (PC Version)

  • When a runner goes out fast, it forces the rest of the field to match his pace for fear of falling behind, or else trust that he will blow up down the road and be easily catchable.

    WSJ: Menu

  • Incorrectly-soldered transistors on control boards could heat up and the power supply fuse could blow, shutting down the hybrid system causing the vehicle to coast to a stop, Toyota says.

    FORBES: Toyota and Lexus Hybrids Recalled

  • Given the cooperation the workforce has shown in slimming down, it is a bitter blow.

    BBC: Double jobs blow for manufacturing

  • Pakistan's response was to become more circumspect and Butt passed fifty before Yuvraj struck a hammer blow, brilliantly throwing down the stumps backward point to get rid of Mohammad Yousuf.

    BBC: By Jonathan Stevenson

  • So they went into these really risky forms of insurance, and now as those sub-prime mortgage bonds have been down-graded and started to blow up, the bond insurers are starting to blow up, too, and the real significance is: What does it mean not just for municipalities all over the country but for the entire market?

    NPR: Bond Insurer Losses Could Have Broader Impact

  • Or would the volcano be just as likely to blow, sending hot lava down in all directions?

    NPR: 'Washington Times' Calls for Hastert to Resign

  • And over time an increasing number of participants will blow the whistle and drive down these unnecessary charges.

    FORBES: Q3 Ends in Midst of Bull Market; More Room to Run

  • But it is interesting that in a down economy, Americans are predicted to blow more money on Halloween than ever before.

    FORBES: Halloween Spending: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

  • The answer is clear to space physicists and electrical engineers: it would blow out transformers and melt down our computer systems.

    CNN: Four ways the Internet could go down

  • Those who could read shared the glorious details with their illiterate fellows, and up and down the state, Latinos savored the blow-by-blow reporting from the front lines of the conflict that had so riveted their attention.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Cliftonville's title challenge suffered a blow on Saturday as they went down to a 3-1 defeat at Coleraine.

    BBC: Glentoran defeat Crusaders in title clash

  • The Tories will play it down, but it will still be a blow.

    ECONOMIST: Historic Winchester

  • Then the film crew revved up its generators and turned on their huge fans to blow fake potato-flake snow down the main street for the sake of consistency.

    ECONOMIST: The past is a dark, cold place

  • New techniques have been developed to "sidetrack" a well when the pipe gets stuck or to control the pressures and temperatures found five miles down into the earth's crust with blow-out preventers and special purpose high-tech drilling rigs.

    FORBES: A Gold Mine In Oil Exploration

  • The charging announcement delivers one more public relations blow to Murdoch, who stepped down from a string of company boards of directors earlier this month and further distanced himself from the print business that first brought him fame and fortune.

    CNN: Reporter on Murdoch's Sun arrested over stolen phones

  • Blow another bubble and worry about the consequences down the road.

    FORBES: Fed Still Blowing Bubbles?

  • The charging announcement delivers one more public relations blow to Murdoch, who last week stepped down from a string of company boards of directors and further distanced himself from the print business that first brought him fame and fortune.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • " Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.

    CNN: When helping Earth was women's work

  • However, if the Nasdaq takes a blow to the head, Apple will get the down draft.

    FORBES: Apple To Fall Off Fiscal Cliff?

  • African-American candidates also won down-ballot races with majority white support, casting a blow to the notion that New Orleans politics and culture are mired in racial tension.

    CNN: New Orleans is storming back

  • No one thinks raising taxes on the middle class is a good idea--it would be a big blow to working families, and it would drag down our entire economy.

    WHITEHOUSE: By the Numbers: 98 Percent

  • Any precipitate action by Gujral could cause Yadav and his supporters to break away -- which would deal a severe blow to the government, if not bring it down completely.

    CNN: On the Edge Again

  • Walker's injury, after he went down awkwardly in a tackle with Senior, was a cruel blow with Shaun Briscoe, Ben Galea, Scott Murrell, Ben Cockayne and Jake Webster already absent for the Robins.

    BBC: Leeds 44-8 Hull KR

  • They scored just after we scored and it could have been a blow for us, we could have let our heads down.

    BBC: Stevenage focused on play-off win

  • Amid the peaks, we do a flyby of an impossibly tiny landing platform, grazing the ground to blow off some powder, then circling back and setting down.

    WSJ: Heli-Skiing in Greenland

  • Those firms are working hard to strip down their cost bases by shedding employees and minimising the risk of trading blow-ups over the next year.

    ECONOMIST: Hedge funds in trouble

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