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Australian deal makers are swapping hard hats for cowboy hats as Chinese investors increasingly explore a new natural-resource boom: agriculture.

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Business in China, like business everywhere else, is being walloped by the global crisis.




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Mark Penn's troubles cast a spotlight on a fairly common Washington trend: Operatives gain expertise and contacts by promoting U.S. politicians, then they make money by advising clients on how to influence those politicians.



The resignation of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief strategist, who came under fire for advising Colombia on a free trade pact, gives Senator Barack Obama an opportunity he has awaited since Mrs. Clinton walloped him on trade issues in Ohio.

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Hard hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in workplace environments such as industrial or construction sites to protect the head from injury due to falling ...

wallop Show phonetics
verb [T] INFORMAL
to hit someone hard, especially with the flat part of the hand or with something held in the hand, or to defeat someone easily, especially in sports:
She walloped him across the back of the head.
"How did your tennis match go last night?" "Oh, I was walloped again."

wallop Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL
My mother gave me such a wallop when she eventually found me.

n.

1. A hard or severe blow.
2. 1. The ability to strike a powerful blow: has a punch that delivers a wallop.
   2. The capacity to create a forceful effect: “Therein lies the novel's emotional wallop and moral message” (George F. Will).

[Middle English walopen, to gallop, from Old North French *waloper.]

walloping Show phonetics
noun [S] INFORMAL
1 when someone is severely punished by being hit:
I got such a walloping from my father when he came home.

2 when someone is badly defeated in a competition:
We gave the visiting team a real walloping.

operative Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 FORMAL a worker, especially one who is skilled in working with their hands:
a factory operative

2 MAINLY US a person who works secretly for an organization:
a CIA operative