These overt, punch-in-the-face signs of the ongoing transformation are not surprising to anyone even remotely involved in technology.
"The punch-up with Lord Rothermere was the best thing for me, " says Desmond.
That is because it scuppered plans to add an inspection protocol (the proximate cause of the near punch-up in 2001).
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In 1935 IBM landed a contract to tabulate employment for the Social Security system and put those dusty punch-card machines to work.
At some point, perhaps mid-2008, the inflationary implications of this full-punch-bowl recovery process will become clear to the Treasury market and the Fed.
Not only does the play work, but this production, directed by David Russell, is a case study in how to stage punch-line humor.
Punch-card ballots are still used by 26 states for at least part of their election systems, according to a recent report by Electiononline.org.
California is only one of many states not to have learnt the lesson from Florida: 25 other states still use the old punch-card system.
The three-man panel's decision is based on the fact that 44% of the likely voters will have to use the old punch-card voting machines.
The convention was supposed to thrash out all the most controversial issues so that the ministerial summit could reach a final agreement quickly and without punch-ups.
Mr. Simon's reflexive reliance on tick-tock punch-line comedy is the most dated aspect of his plays, especially the darker ones that he wrote in his later years.
Three weeks before California was set to vote on Governor Gray Davis' recall, a federal appeals court postponed the election because of worries about flawed punch-card voting systems.
As such, the film is an efficient demonstration of the Greengrass method: the punch-drunk camerawork, the drum-beating soundtrack, and a stout refusal to pause for thought or downtime.
Harryhausen called his format "dynamation, " and though it looks somewhat crude by today's computer-generated standards, it still packs a punch -- and other filmmakers remain agog by Harryhausen's abilities.
Best Buy, now in trouble, became the darling of social media watchers a few years ago for its open flexible work models, unprecedented in a punch-clock domain like retail.
Finally, as with most in-house compliance rules, your firm will likely require you to submit an annual update addressing most of the punch-list items in its written supervisory procedures and employee manuals.
Yet it remains a deeply divisive issue - as Russian MPs found the first time it was debated in parliament last year, when the discussions ended in a punch-up between opposing deputies.
After an hour or so of this Punch-and-Judy show, with its noisy drinking, hurling of kitchen items, partings, and reconciliations, you may want to knock both lovers flat with an enormous chili pepper.
As Smith sat uncomfortably through the first round, television cameras caught him frowning at times and clearly disappointed that someone who has had so much success on the field was becoming a draft-night punch-line.
But is it the kind of punch - in using the analogy we've been stake-sticking with this morning, Renee - that you think is going to raise significant questions in the minds of Democratic voters.
McNaughton is looking for something else, and spends the whole film not getting there: it sets off violently, tries a few jokes, changes tack to a mooching sadness, and finally settles for an old-style punch-up.
Lots of middle-class liberals came from as far away as California and New York to show first-time voters how to use punch-card machines, and to keep an eye open for any signs of voter intimidation.
Starting in January and running through July, users will be able to demo one select title per month from the eShop: Balloon Fight, F-Zero, Punch-Out featuring Mr. Dream, Kirby's Adventure, Super Metroid, Yoshi and Donkey Kong.
Imagine a standup comic who delivers the punch-lines of his jokes first, a plane with landing gear that deploys just after touchdown, or a stick of dynamite with a unique fuse that ignites only after it explodes.
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Anaheed and I are working on the proposal for a Rookie book, and Ira was like, "It needs to be a girls-punch-you-out kind of thing, " so now we just refer to the book as the girls-punch-you-out thing.
The company started life making punch-card tabulators.
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Just metres away from where the coffin was discovered was something else which, if dug up in the garden, would probably be thrown away - a squashed, grey pot, hand-moulded, not made on a wheel, and with a crude decoration of lines and punch-marks.
The BeagleBone might be just the piece of kit for the DIY set itching to boot Linux in 10 seconds, but the freshly unveiled BeagleBone Black packs an even greater punch -- and the same speedy start times -- at just half the price of its predecessor.
All indications are the one-two punch of macro-economic events and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has negatively impacted Wall Street and left banks reeling.
With a one-two punch, the glass-is-half-empty gang hit the semis and the until recently untouchable energy names.
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