Dahl was a very shrewd cookie. He was an expedient writer who would use anything to make an impact in a book. He saw what worked his books are full of effects and good scenes. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , there are fantastic scenes of demolishing this person, getting rid of that person - all very high-powered stuff.
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The future of radiation tends to be what we call stereotactic radiation, which focuses on the tumor and applies large doses at one time as opposed to traditional radiation which is small doses over a longer time, ... There is a gamma knife that's dedicated to treating brain lesions where, instead of radiating the brain in a three-week period, it's a one-time focused, high-powered type treatment.
Doublespeak is a new medium. It's online radio. It's accessible to everyone. We're getting listeners, viewers, people who access the site access to high-powered people around the country, and we're doing it in a format that's never been done before.
There are some pretty high-powered interest groups on both sides, so it's anyone's guess. He's caught between a rock and a hard place and will likely come up with some compromise.
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
Wilkinson had a lot of high-powered influence in the United States, Spain and France. Wilkinson commissioned Pike, but what were his motives He had already sent men into New Orleans and Texas (still under Spanish control) on filibusters or spying missions. He was making contact with Spanish viceroys and selling information to Spain (U.S. military arrangements for 12,000).
There wasn't a lot of high-powered competition. There were mainly non-Division I schools, but there were definitely some very good athletes. There was not as much competition as a typical meet that we go to, but that's what we wanted right before the Big East conference.
I think there's definitely a focus in our game. We're a team that has the ability to shut down some high-powered teams and that's the way we're structured to play. Against the top teams, we seem to have a better mind-set.
He lent a 19-year-old inexperienced driver who had a history of speeding and car accidents a high-powered automobile.
I am always very intrigued and very fascinated by the variety of social comment and political comment and high-powered emotional content that you get through the films in Berlin.
Brad is more of a steamroller and Geary is a more polished wrestler. Geary is capable of high-powered matches. He'll get into 30-second flurries ... the type of scrambles you'll see in college wrestling. Brad is more defensive than Geary. If you go in our weight room, you'll find Brad. He's one of the hardest-working kids in the school.
The last two games our guys have played very, very well against two teams that have high-powered offenses. To be able to hold them to 68 points -- they average 85 -- is pretty good. They made a run and played awfully well to win.
Unlike men, who are apt to stab a total stranger in a drunken brawl or run amuck with a high-powered rifle, we women usually kill our intimates We kill our children, our husbands, our lovers.
They're very dangerous. If they're out there night hunting, they're going to have a firearm. Most of them are using high-powered rifles, and a high-powered rifle can't be stopped by the body armor we wear.
Committee chairs attract thousands of dollars from the lobby firms, companies and high-powered lobbyists and those people get access.
The consortium needed a very tightly integrated HR and financial system, and Lawson presented the strongest choice in terms of full functionality, ... For the first time, these districts can create a personnel budget, report on it and understand exactly where they stand on a daily basis. By automating these business functions, we're reallocating resources and providing high-powered, integrated systems without impacting funding for the education of our students.