Slap down multiple cool-running cores on a single slice of silicon.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Ms Merkel will surely slap down the CSU's wilder ideas.

ECONOMIST: Germany and Europe

The monetary authority's aim was to slap down hedge funds that had been shorting shares (selling borrowed shares in the hope of buying them back later at a lower price).

ECONOMIST: Hong Kong

The move follows hard on the heels of attempts at the Karachi Stock Exchange - the country's premier share market - to slap down "wildcat" speculative trading in favour of more long-term investment.

BBC: Pakistan banks' strategy under fire

Peter Mitchell, formerly marketing director at Mars and Guinness, and now chairman of Mountain View, a specialist consultancy, says they still tend to slap down an expensive, overly detailed report and walk away.

ECONOMIST: Advertising

In an exclusive interview with BBC News Online, she used some of the strongest language yet from any minister to slap down the Liberal Democrat leader whose future hangs on delivering a referendum on electoral reform before the next election.

BBC: Beckett warns Ashdown on PR

Example: If General Motors wants to slap down Web juggernauts like AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, RealNetworks and MP3.com in the race to own the car portal, it will have to do what a Web company does: price for market share, not margin, and then try hard as heck to scale up rapidly.

FORBES: Digital Rules

But they miss the most important truths that the Olmert-Rice slap-down brought to the surface.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bush's parting lesson

Back at the office, I'm poring over a map, trying to figure out where the slap-down may have occurred.

WSJ: A Walk on the Dirty Side of Politics: 'Can You Tell Me a Little About Your Ex-Husband?'

Candelon should have grabbed his second try after outstripping the defence down the left, but Lamont did brilliantly to slap the ball out of his hands as the wing stepped inside.

BBC: Scarlets 43-34 Perpignan