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It also helps explain why the Wall Street Journal 's report that most of the 10 start-up companies funded by Doerr's Java Fund are writing their software in languages other than Java stung so much, as did Corel's abandonment of its plan to make its entire Office suite of programs Java-compatible.
1 stung 2 by 3 what happened, Lederer began 4 trying 5 to write better 6 than Monrad, 7 who fainted.
It said that the Nobel Prize committee, stung by criticism of its award of the prize to Yasser Arafat, "clearly wished to avoid further controversy by making another award to a man closely connected to a terrorist organisation.
His desperate attempts to bed her make him reckless and seal his doom: Stung by a wasp outside her window, he staggers into school on Election Day with his eye as swollen and saggy as Quasimodo's--and morally hunchbacked, to boot.
Hunting dogs may be stung by scorpions of the Buthidae family ( Tityus trinitatis ). The effects of the sting can be severe.