"Throwing a shoe or hitting someone with a shoe or showing the bottom of your shoe when sitting with legs up on a chair and facing another person all are culturally unacceptable and are considered to be a grave insult and belittling to a person, " Shirazi said.

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"The biggest mistake guys make is hitting on someone before they're attracted to you, " Strauss says.

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"His game is sharp and he's hitting the ball a long way for someone who is almost 50, " he said.

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Hitting Cmd-Z with this method helps someone to make a decision about whether the edit they just made is what they wanted.

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With Wal-Mart's growth efforts in the densely popular Northeast hitting endless roadblocks, it was probably time for someone to step up and take control of the area.

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Show me the writer who can't wait to get to his computer in the morning instead of reading the paper or taking a walk or hitting the snooze button, and I'll show you someone about whom you probably ought to be deeply suspicious.

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' They always comment on the potential someone has as based solely on the distance of their hitting.

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Both of these examples required someone recognizing the value of taking a big marketing risk, thinking creatively, and ultimately, hitting the green light.

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It was as if someone wanted to imply that the newcomers were somehow to blame for the desperate economic times now hitting western European neighbours, notably Ireland.

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" In retrospect, she says, "Wednesday was the worst day to lower someone's calories, assuming they'd been here since Sunday--it's all hitting you by Wednesday.

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