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In fact, everything I can see suggests that the big boys really were naive--that, star struck by LTCM's charismatic leader and his prestigious team, they failed to ask even the simplest questions (such as, "How much money have you borrowed from other people?"
On Halloween, kids are four times as likely to be fatally struck by a car.
Mom's still smiling, struck by the warmth and familiarity of this scene--and, the ad makers hope, she's still turning up the dials and buying up the Tylenol.
9 The Pentagon had been struck; the White House or the Capitol had narrowly escaped direct attack.
It also struck me as odd, in view of how inventive and amusing this jargon is, how little is used for background colour in TV police dramas and, when the programme-makers use it at all, how often they get it wrong.