Police later explained that a a 36-year-old man from Wilmington, North Carolina, was unfastening the case of his 12-gauge shotgun on a table near the show entrance when it accidentally discharged.
With a flip of the traction-control switch and a depression of the accelerator, the needle red-lined on the rpm gauge and the car sprang out of the snow with the alacrity of a mountain goat.
There's also the MIDI-out port -- if you have a synth handy, you can play a MIDI track -- and as far as plucking is concerned, there are six identical heavy-gauge strings on the body.
Details should be provided on how the maintenance visits will be carried out (i.e. number of repeat visits per year, involvement and on-site training of local tide gauge operators, costing etc.).
He had discovered a U.S. Army report suggesting that a military version of the Mossberg twelve-gauge, when dropped on its muzzle, can occasionally misfire.
Reuters reported Thursday morning that the rate on the three-month Euribor, a gauge for interbank lending in Europe, rose 1.2% from 1.19%, showing greater expectations for an interest rate hike.
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In the wake of the Bear Stearns blow-up, rule makers will put renewed emphasis on the cash positions of major financial institutions--a traditional gauge of a bank's ability to weather crisis.
This year, we conducted a follow-up study to gauge the impact of the ever-rising tide of information on major businesses across the globe.
She will also visit a rehabilitation programme for 18 to 35-year-olds as well as interviewing people on the streets to gauge public opinion on mental illness.
He can also introduce change on a whim--say, drastically lower housing prices, gauge players' responses (from rage to relief) and adjust the dynamics of the game accordingly.
The animal's reaction to their reflection is used as a gauge of their self-awareness, based on whether they inspect the mark on their own body, or react as if it does not appear on themselves.
In that modern-day gauge of instant popularity and consequentiality, it trended on Twitter both in Australia and globally.
Friday's meeting was an opportunity for the U.S. to gauge Tokyo's intent to join negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a regionwide free-trade pact pushed by Washington.
The Register is reporting that PA Semi had a close relationship with Apple in the months prior to the switch, and that the two companies were working together to gauge the feasibility of running native PowerPC-coded software on 2GHz dual-core chips that PA Semi claims run at only a third of the 21 to 25 watts consumed by Intel's Core Duo models.
Researchers at the RAND Corporation have made a brave attempt to gauge the impact of America's health-care system on business.
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Here's a time-honored way to gauge how the House of Representatives will vote on the bailout bill Friday: Follow the money.
"You are not hearing what you were before, " said Alberto Lopez, part of a husband-and-wife team of biologists trying to gauge the health of frogs on the island.
How far (if at all) there is now a rift between Salahuddin and the Pakistan-based leadership and Dar and his commanders on the ground is difficult to gauge.
At the inquest, the firearms expert who had examined the twelve-gauge Mossberg testified that it normally takes five pounds of pressure on the trigger in order to fire the gun.
The Roadmap highlights the need for strong water stewardship, and based on this framework Ceres has developed a cutting-edge tool, the Ceres Aqua Gauge, to help companies and investors improve their scrutiny and management of water risks.
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Earnings of other companies like Lowes and Home Depot will provide additional feedback on the state of the construction sector, while Wal-Mart and Target will help gauge the strength of the consumer.
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No doubt investors will carefully gauge consumer reaction to the switch to trans-fat free oil, particularly on the taste on its signature fries.
He also has said it relies too heavily on poorly designed tests to gauge progress in reading and math at the expense of a well-rounded education.
In recent weeks there has been a rise in both LIBOR (a gauge of banks' borrowing costs) and the credit-default-swap spreads on bank bonds (the cost of insuring against default risk).
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Stocks benefited from better-than-expected economic data in China, a strong reading on German economic sentiment and an improvement in a gauge of New York manufacturing activity.
Seeing how someone really performs at work, even on a temporary project, is a much better gauge of what they will be like as a full-time employee than a job interview or canned employment test.
Having outlived the dinosaurs -- dating back some 110 million years -- the turtles are also among the most enduring creatures on earth and, biologists say, an important gauge of the health of the marine ecosystem.
Inside the Spark EV, critical vehicle functions are clearly and intuitively displayed on one of the vehicle's two reconfigurable, high-resolution, seven-inch color LCD screens, including a confidence gauge that shows the expected driving range based on driving habits and other conditions.
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The ZEW economic research institute's gauge of expectations for Germany, based on a poll of 300 analysts and investors, fell to -41.4, from -40.7 in April.
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