Asked how things are expected to be in the next few months, considering the current economic hiccough, he said : " We are a little guarded, but confident it will be an OK prospect this year for movies ."
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Add whatever you think we've left out ( though she didn't coin the use of " bug " to indicate a computer hiccough, she merely popularized it, so please leave our correct version of that story intact ).
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:: It's easy to do from the toolserver, but they're having a hiccough right now and I'll have to try again in a few hours . & mdash; Carl ( talk ) 14 : 23, 18 December 2009 ( UTC)
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California's electricity debacle comes from the confluence of unexpectedly strong demand, supply hiccoughs, unusual weather patterns, price gouging and, above all, an unbelievably bungled " deregulation " in 1996 which freed the wholesale electricity market but imposed price controls at the retail level.
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We had one hiccough early on pit road but the rest of them we picked out our spots every single time, and that s what it takes; it takes a team effort . " In the subsequent post-race press conference, Hamlin said, " Anytime that Jimmie is down is not usually because of performance, it's usually because of an incident like last week.
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Allmusic critic Stewart Mason described " Precious " as Hynde's " true calling card . " He also describes it as " a poison-pen valentine to Hynde's home city of Akron, Ohio . " Music critic Simon Reynolds described the lyrics as a " strafing stream of syllables " mixing " speed rap, jive talk, baby babble, " and the song as " punk scat, all hiccoughs, vocal tics, gasps and feral growls, weirdly poised between love and hate, oral sensuality and staccato, stabbing aggression ."
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The most notorious group of letters in the English language, " ough ", is commonly pronounced in at least ten different ways, six of which are illustrated in the construct, " Though the tough cough and hiccough plough him through ", which is quoted by Robert A . Heinlein in " The Door into Summer " to illustrate the difficulties facing automated speech transcription and reading . " Ough ", usually representing a pronunciation of roughly, is in fact a word in its own right : an exclamation of disgust similar to " ugh ".
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The periods of transition that separate consecutive adaptations ( because by no expedient of macabre transubstantiation can the grave-sheets serve as swaddling-clothes ) represent the perilous zones in the life of the individual, dangerous, precarious, painful, mysterious and fertile, when for a moment the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being . ( At this point, and with a heavy heart and for the satisfaction or disgruntlement of Gideans, semi and integral, I am inspired to concede a brief parenthesis to all the analogivorous, who are capable of interpreting the Live dangerously, that victorious hiccough in vacuo, as the national anthem of the true ego exiled in habit.
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And it is asserted, with very great truth, that through the medium of hope and fear, sufficiently impressed upon the mind or imagination . . . Of the truth of this we have the strongest and most infallible evidence in the hiccough, which is instantaneously cured by any sudden effect of fear or surprise; . . . Seeing, therefore, that such virtues lie hid in the occult properties of nature, united with the sense or imagination of man . . . without any compact with spirits, or dealings with the devil; we surely ought to receive them into our practice, and to adopt them as often as occasion seriously requires, although professional emolument and pecuniary advantage might in some instances be narrowed by it.
