What all this shows is that despite Paulson's efforts to shoot a silver bullet into the heart of the financial market turmoil, it's difficult if not impossible to succeed when the target is zigzagging as much as it is.

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There were rocks everywhere, and scorpions and tarantulas and rattlesnakes, and vultures and no trees and not much water, and skinny dogs and donkeys, and ugly bad guys with guns and bullet vests who rode laughing into town to drink and shoot off their pistols and rifles, as if it were the Fourth of July, driving their horses all over town like dirt bikes on desert dunes.

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Our goal will be to shoot out through the atmosphere, orbit in space, then fall back into the air when the bullet gets behind our head.

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