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The Big Bounce Walter S. Tevis
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To richochet from email to Internet to Facebook to Twitter and back again?
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Internet, Your Brain, Your Writerly Self 2010
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A richochet may have deviated off at a 30 degree angle and hit cows that were about 700 yards away.
The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question. 2009
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Where we shoot there is the additional safety of the far bank of the creek being about 40 feet high for a bullet backstop in event of a richochet.
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Where we shoot there is the additional safety of the far bank of the creek being about 40 feet high for a bullet backstop in event of a richochet.
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A richochet may have deviated off at a 30 degree angle and hit cows that were about 700 yards away.
The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question. 2009
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Best guess would be because they are on a pavement/tarmac/etc of some kind, and the richochet would be dangerous.
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All sorts of craziness where the trend lines sort of richochet off each other (a random looking scatter of the purple and orange dots there) but you can see that it quickly sorted out and Obama is once more clearly in the lead.
North Carolina Race In Single Digits, Another Poll Finds 2009
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Holbrooke then very carefully, and ominously, took us through the richochet-like sequence of consequences: the successor inherits Iraq and is bedeviled by it starting in 2009; Iraq becomes not a but the issue during the successor's reelection campaign in 2012; Iraq skews domestic and foreign policy during the successor's lame-duck term; Iraq continues to entrap the candidates running for President in 2016.
New Poll: Yep, The 2008 Election Will Be All About Iraq War 2009
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You hit the horn, or the deer or maybe even get lucky and the bullet richochet and hits you in the horn.
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