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  • While many hedge funds are known as gun-slinging shops, Bridgewater's flagship hedge fund, Pure Alpha, posted a positive return in 2008.

    Bridgewater Goes Large Michael Corkery 2011

  • One side, which now controls the House and effectively can block legislation in the Senate, disparages science, wants America to be close to a theocracy, craves a return to Wild West gun-slinging, would gut social insurance, and repeal most of the affirmative gains of social investment and public-interest regulation since the New Deal.

    Robert Kuttner: Fatal Triangles Robert Kuttner 2011

  • It has many elements of an old Western: a small mining town controlled by powerful men and a struggle to maintain that power, gangs of thugs who follow orders, scantily clad women who can be paid for their time and attentions, and the new gun-slinging guy in town.

    Comic Review: Cold Space #2 | Fandomania 2010

  • Proud, gun-slinging fighters shuffled viewers through.

    Libya's Future on the Line Charles Levinson 2011

  • But the movie really belongs to Jesse Eisenberg's wistful but tenacious neurotic, who calls himself Columbus, and Woody Harrelson's tight-jawed, gun-slinging Tallahassee.

    'Social Network': Password Is Perfection Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • One side, which now controls the House and effectively can block legislation in the Senate, disparages science, wants America to be close to a theocracy, craves a return to Wild West gun-slinging, would gut social insurance, and repeal most of the affirmative gains of social investment and public-interest regulation since the New Deal.

    Robert Kuttner: Fatal Triangles Robert Kuttner 2011

  • We will now enter the era of gun-slinging angry mobs controlling the scene.

    Health care debate focuses on public insurance option 2009

  • One side, which now controls the House and effectively can block legislation in the Senate, disparages science, wants America to be close to a theocracy, craves a return to Wild West gun-slinging, would gut social insurance, and repeal most of the affirmative gains of social investment and public-interest regulation since the New Deal.

    Robert Kuttner: Fatal Triangles Robert Kuttner 2011

  • After coming face-to-face with a Triplet he thought he already killed and a shootout with a gun-slinging hairstylist, the only question is will Cowboy Ninja Viking be left alive to enjoy it?

    Image Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • They flummoxed Tom Brady and almost out-slung the gun-slinging Aaron Rodgers.

    Time to Quickly Bandage the Wounds Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

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