His grandmother, Sheila Harris, fortunately was a tough-as-nails 49-year-old and a worthy combatant, hell-bent on her grandson getting out of the projects.
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Thumma said it's a clear effort to avoid some of the stereotypes about Southerners, such as negative perceptions of their racial views or reputed "damn-us-all-to-hell" fundamentalism.
It made light bets in plain old stocks and bonds and went hell-for-leather into exotic and illiquid holdings: commodities, timberland, hedge funds, emerging-market equities and private equity partnerships.
That hey-what-the-hell casualness extends to Tweedy, whose tendency to start each of his singer-songwriter meditations with the same "Dust in the Wind" chord progression is almost confrontationally laid back.
We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.
As a hostel newbie - the ones on offer when I was young being more akin to borstals than anything else - I was astonished to discover they now have free wifi, a bar, barbecues, beer nights, and rooms more akin to boutique hotels than the dirty, ram-a-jam hell-holes of my youth.
Ken Morley - who played Reg Holdsworth and for whom Maud Grimes became the "mother-in-law from hell" - was also full of praise for his former co-star.
" But she also had memorable stints as a widow playing the angles on "Six Feet Under, " a crazed scientist on "The X-Files, " a woman hell-bent on avenging the murder of her sister on "Desperate Housewives, " and the multitasking sole female in the Off-Broadway hit comedy "Jeffrey.
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Whether this list leads you to a hilltop spa in Mexico, a helicopter-access-only slope in the Canadian Rockies or a kitchen filled with Italian grandmas hell-bent on perfecting your pesto is up to you.
But the sub-plots are tantalizing: Hollywood studios are hell-bent on retaining profits from movies after they leave the theater, while technology companies and online retailers jockey for supremacy in movie streaming.
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The Conservatives' assembly leader Andrew RT Davies said Helvetic's decision was "a wake-up call for a Welsh government who are hell-bent on using taxpayer money to fund the purchase of the airport, without presenting a convincing case for how they will make the acquisition work for the Welsh public".
Although conventional wisdom would have you believe that Apple's hell-bent on forcing the iTunes-iPod-iPhone ecosystem down your throat, it's really quite easy to use all kinds of other software and hardware with iTunes.
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It is the policy that has gotten strange: Democrats and Republicans seem hell-bent on protecting millions of high-income people from deficit-cutting tax hikes.
Buffett has been touting the so-called Buffet Tax on millionaires all year, but Republicans have been hell-bent on keeping tax breaks in place for all income earners.
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As evidenced by the photo, the thin-as-hell MacBook has no optical drive and sports an extra wide trackpad and button, which makes the whole thing look pretty goofy.
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Playing landlord has a downside-that midnight February call to fix the boiler. (Isaac Victor just saw the 1990 tenant-from-hell movie Pacific Heights and admits he has qualms.) For those souls who can deal with the hassles, we have some math to tell which is the best choice.
Some argued that the spot, which depicts a gone-to-hell Detroit bouncing back, was ironic given that Chrysler took taxpayer bailout money and has still to dig itself out of the recessionary hole. (Let alone spend money on a Super Bowl spot.) Others, meanwhile, lauded the automaker for imbuing a sense of hope towards recovery.
Redmond's already hinted pretty strongly that it's hell-bent on bringing the acclaimed Zune media experience to more devices including its Windows Mobile handsets -- something we hope to see unveiled in Barcelona.
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John Wilkes, of the Hell-Fire Club, faced a similar dilemma during the Gordon Riots of 1780, when an anti-Catholic demonstration in London escalated into an orgy of burning and looting.
Designers also remain hell-bent on leather, incorporating it in allover silhouettes like leggings and skirts, or using it as a detail on sleeves, lapels and shoulders.
" In his blog, he says: "The ideas industry ... oft seems hell-bent on turning each and every human on planet Earth into either a breathless 'pundit' or a zombified 'consumer.
Mr Jones also said that Labour was the "devolution party of Wales" which could "navigate a middle way between nationalism and a Tory government that is hell-bent on dragging power away from the people".
Rather than examining in detail the United States' relations with Europe, he prefers to moan about how Britain joined one sort of Europe only to discover that its partners were hell-bent on creating another.
The band's hell-raising antics proved less popular with other parts of the aristocracy and the tour ended with them being chased to Southampton docks by a furious, shotgun-wielding Lord Harrington, whose daughter the lead singer had been romancing.
He's not interested in conforming to a mainstream standard and was hell-bent on avoiding what he called "the karaoke culture" of "American Idol, " "The X Factor" and other programs in which singing is a competition for the mass taste.
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Regardless of whether it was a question of adding a dual-clutch system mid-lifecycle, or whether or not LCD prices had finally sunk enough to have one in even the base Mini Hardtop, the team seemed hell-bent on insisting that no major changes would come prior to the "next generation" of cars.
If you are hell-bent on showcasing your Internet or social media savvy as part of the actual thank you, go build a quick (and genuine, and well-done) YouTube video, SlideShare presentation, or website that you forward directly to your interviewer (note: Do not post this work to the Facebook page).
Speaking in the aftermath of the USADA report's release, O'Reilly told CNN she went through "two-and-a-half to three years of hell" after she first made the decision to speak out about doping.
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Sure, you could blame the evil carrier -- hell, that's always the easy route -- but where in this scenario can HTC insist that it stuck up for the enthusiasts?
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Now, Pfizer is asking for a re-hearing to reverse what some say could become a special kind of legal hell for brand-name drugmakers.
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