Sometimes, it seemed an entire game would see only one strike thrown his way.
The fund has one strike against it--a steep expense ratio (1.6% a year)--but I couldn't find a cheap alternative from Vanguard.
One strike against Ms. Ketcham is that she doesn't belong to the Corps of Cadets, a 2, 100-member student military organization that each year nominates five of its own members as yell leaders.
And Texas was within one strike of winning the series in two successive innings where, with two outs, if the batter had swung and struck out, the game would have ended and Texas would have been the new champions.
In fact, if the historical record held true and Richard's body was stripped of its armor and flung face-down over a horse after the battle, he would have been in exactly the right position to allow someone to stab him upward in the right buttock, explaining one strike to the skeleton's pelvis.
Unite members voted by four to one for strike action and nine to one for action short of strike on a 65% turnout.
The magnitude-6.3 quake is the deadliest to strike Italy in decades and the first major one to strike the country in almost seven years.
My parents were also union activists and my mother led one notable strike in Ireland.
Do you believe that work comes before family, or that one must strike a balance?
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For example, he said, one recent strike near Falluja, a volatile city west of Baghdad, began with a mortar and rocket attack.
Nani went close with one deflected strike while also forcing Al Habsi into a scrambled save from a curling free kick - but by in large the hosts were poor.
In a three-week period last month, an American marine battalion, tasked with taking control of Garmser, a Talibanised district of southern Helmand, called in one air strike, to drop a 500-pound bomb.
At about two pounds, it's definitely on the heavy side, which is one major strike against and that, combined with the angular edges that dig into fleshy parts of hands, means this is not a tablet you'll want to hold for long.
The 2m-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions staged a one-day strike and threatened another bigger one unless the whole system was scrapped.
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To complicate matters, the police briefly went on strike, and several unions called a one-day strike.
He was joined during that time by noted MIT economist Lester Thurow, who said that Western nations were doomed to paltry economic growth of 1% to 2% for the foreseeable future (strike one, Les) and that Europe would outgrow the U.S. (strike two).
The chance of marriage success is related to the amount of time a couple has dated (strike one against Billy Bob) and is influenced by the age of the bride and groom (strike two: Angelina was 24 when they married).
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Ground staff have called a one-day strike amid an ongoing pay dispute with the airline.
They mounted a well-supported one-day strike in April, and Mr Liikanen had to retreat.
The move comes as some civil servants stage a one-day strike over pay and pensions.
It said it would be monitoring services across the city throughout the one-day strike.
Since 1934 there has been only one dockers' strike on the west coast, in 1971.
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They began their first one-day strike last Friday and have three more days of industrial action planned.
The latest industrial action follows a one-day strike by NUJ members on 18 February which affected programmes.
Lecturers at Reid Kerr College in Paisley have staged a one-day strike in a dispute over pay.
Unison said administrative and clerical staff last month voted 88% in favour of the one-day strike action.
About 100 postal workers at a delivery office in south Bristol are staging a second one-day strike.
Strike one came on Monday, when the Treasury released its latest numbers on the Home Affordable Modification Program.
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Last June, the dispute led to a one-day strike but the assistants said promises made then have not been honoured.
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