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A rough analogy: Suppose Mark McGwire threw a blank check for $1,000,000 into the crowd.
The theory that the horse latitudes were so named because mariners becalmed there threw overboard the horses they were transporting because they died of thirst or starved seems almost impossible: in order for such an event to have given rise to horse latitudes it would have to have recurred many times, and it is hard to believe that 16th- and 17th-century mariners were so improvident as to have allowed that to happen very often.
Once, at a math department picnic, he threw her to the ground and put his foot on her throat.
Concert-goers threw bottles, set fire to 12 tractor-trailers, and recreational bonfires grew into serious blazes.
United Airlines, on the other hand--the old name the company threw in the trash--was in the top 15 percent in awareness and the top 10 percent in esteem.