But over the past several days, it has turned into another mallet in the whack-a-mole game of primary season.
As Mr Tanter explains, American idealism in wanting to whack the wicked needs to have strong domestic support and few lobby groups are as powerful in the United States as Israel's.
If you are smarting over a 40% whack in your stock portfolio over the past year, take consolation from the government's plight.
The book (for which she received a whopping quarter-million dollar advance) is a whack in the head for anyone stuck in traditional, linear, fixed ways of thinking about career and success.
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The Americans are much tougher with Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Authority's leader, saying he must whack terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza before being allowed to meet Mr Bush.
Every group that has looked at this objectively -- bipartisan groups, in fact, that have looked at this objectively have basically come to the same conclusion that in order to take a significant whack out of our deficit and debt we need to do it in a balanced way.
In America alone, there has been a whack-a-mole game going on for years, in which American officials--at the Treasury, Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, and so on--have been chasing down an astounding array of Iranian-related suppliers, front companies, money-laundering operations, and sanction-busting sales to Iran's weapons programs, including its U.N.
That is only one of several elements in the new contracts that whack up pay.
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Brokerage commissions can also whack total return in strategies that involve frequent trading, such as dollar cost averaging.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest in the U.S. is trying to whack a healthy meat substitute called Quorn, from Marlow Foods in the U.K., a unit of AstraZeneca.
Even so, if anything in my routine is out of whack -- if I don't eat often enough, or if I become overly stressed -- I can count on one or two days of misery.
Though the hospital industry is taking a huge whack from spending reductions in what they have historically received from the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly, they are also going to see massive reductions in spending on charity care and uncompensated care, which is the amount they eat when patients cannot pay their bills.
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They have gone further, too, in making people pay for a good whack of their own pensions.
You can slap one of the Spice Girls in a variation of the old "whack-a-mole" game, or punch out John Tesh.
The study points to human activity as the cause, because of the suddenness of the shift in temperature which appears to be out of whack with long-term trends.
In palladium the managed-money accounts continued to whack at their net long position, which fell to 3, 414 contracts.
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Now we are going to go through and whack the fire ants and put something in its place that has a very different biology.
Forbes columnist and money manager Marilyn Cohen thinks there are some screaming bargains among corporates, in part because spreads versus treasuries are out of whack.
In Southwold, Suffolk, few can resist the Whack a Banker machine or the Booth of Truth at the Under The Pier Show, a hair-brained arcade of home-made contraptions, mad cap games and exhibits that is the brainchild of local scientist and inventor Tim Hunkin.
It is not healthy for the forces of anti- Westernism and anti-Americanism to be allowed to persist in the idea that it is their proper role to whack the West, and that the West's proper role is to sit there and take the whacking.
But in my experience, parts of her letter are out of whack with the realities of college today.
But, in theory, Barclays, Standard Chartered and HSBC have the option of paying a lower amount by moving their respective domiciles, their homes, offshore (to be clear, they'd still have to pay a fair whack, because they would still have taxable debt in the UK).
But these days, in the aftermath of Sarbanes-Oxley, the balance is out of whack.
McGranahan says the board is going to find someone willing to do bolder things such as get out of China to raise capital, whack payroll at the store level and figure out the Web in a real way.
Thumping the drum of restoring Hindu pride, while simultaneously promising a whack to the Muslims, the BJP picked up 86 parliamentary seats in 1989, compared with just two in 1984.
When I look at the problems in the higher ed world, I see demand, supply and prices out of whack, and I see a desperate lack of innovation, diversity and real choice.
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But if a fund promises returns that are so out of whack with what well-managed and respected funds are able to deliver in the same market conditions, then that could be a warning sign.
In financial services, the ability to drill down into data and find something that is out of whack on a mobile device and then send an email will be prized.
Is it your understanding - is it the consensus of most economists that in fact, Americans are at a danger point in consuming more than we save or that the balance between saving and spending is truly out of whack?
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