Michael Bay recently reinforced that point by reportedly firing Megan Fox from Transformers 3 for bad mouthing the director.

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He illustrated this point with a story about someone firing a blank with his rifle pointing down in a crowded room.

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It was a huge breakthrough for the fifth seed and he took full advantage by firing down an ace on his second set point to move into the lead for the first time.

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They returned fire with 50-caliber machine guns, they also returned fire with their M-16's -- Marines pointing out of the top firing, but not indiscriminantly, that is something the Marines point out -- only when they were fired upon and only when they could see the flashes, did they fire back.

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In aggregate, it seems to point to a continued modest expansion, and an economy that is neither falling off a cliff nor firing on all cylinders.

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