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Five or six grand for one of these things was crazy, the price was way out of whack. – Klee Kleber	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I was doing a play — there was a scene where another actor was all over my character and f---in’ bit me, and I was like,whack! Maybe he didn’t mean to, but he was taking things a little far. – Kathleen Turner	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The sheer volume, magnitude, and frequency of Facebook's controversies strongly suggests that the company's whack-a-mole approach is insufficient - Facebook needs to institutionalize stronger risk oversight mechanisms. – Trillium Asset Management	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
He didn’t like confrontation, period, especially in his family. And everybody in his family was aware of it… From time to time, whether it was Barbara alone or the kids or a combination, some things would get out of whack. Frank Sinatra greeting a fan. (Courtesy of Eliot Weisman) I think he became more upset, depressed about those things... It bothered him when there was confrontation about who’s getting what in the future after his death… He wanted his wife taken care of and his kids taken care of fairly. – Eliot Weisman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
What we've seen over and over in the last years, China is unwilling to risk activities that threaten deadly force, it is possible to deter them. We'll have to keep deterring them over and over. That is the test for next 10 to 15 years in this game of whack-a-mole until the Chinese decide that this is not the way to do international relations. – Gregory Poling	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We can't have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator thinks he's a whack job. you have to make deals. You have to get along. That's the purpose of what our founders created. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I know our guys are attacking the heads of (ISIS) and getting the intelligence that we need. right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole. – Josh Cain	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole, that's probably where some work needs to be done. – Josh Cain	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Barbara Bush is behind me—the looming figure that all children have—and she's about ready to whack me across the head if I try to be something I'm not. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The giant chip on the top represents all the wealth that's gone to the top 1% of the population over the last 10 years. And the way you eat it is, you whack it with your spoon and then you mix it around. – Ben Cohen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we'll be playing whack-a-mole and there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The strong consensus is that in order for us to succeed long-term in this fight against (ISIS), we have to develop local security forces that can sustain progress. It is not enough for us to simply send in American troops to temporarily set back organizations like (ISIS), but then as soon as we leave see that void filled again by extremists, if we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we'll be playing whack-a-mole and there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This checklist of 10 reasons your internal thermostat is out of whack can help you get a handle on why you're chronically freezing your butt off. You're too thin Low body weight — defined as a BMI hovering around 18.5 or under — can chill you out for a couple of reasons. First, when you're underweight, you lack an adequate level of body fat to insulate you from cold temperatures, explained Maggie Moon, RD, a Los Angeles – based nutritionist. The other thing is, to maintain that low BMI, you have to reduce your food intake so you likely aren't eating very much at all. Skimping on calories puts the brakes on your metabolism, so you don't create enough body heat. Consider putting on a few pounds by loading up on whole, healthy foods that contain lots of protein, fat, and complex carbohydrates. RELATED : Subtle Signs of Eating Disorders Your Thyroid is out of whack Add cold intolerance to the long list of health issues you can blame on the butterfly-shaped gland in your neck. Always being cold is a telltale sign of hypothyroidism, which means Your Thyroid doesn't secrete enough thyroid hormone. – Holly Phillips	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I don't think you could ever presume it's behind you, but now we're in a position to understand what's happened, it's like playing Whack-A-Mole. They just pop up somewhere else. – Donald McGurk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are still operating under the 2011 strategy and the problem with that is even if we drive ISIS out of Iraq, the [Obama] administration will just basically go back to sleep. They are not treating this for what it is – a global, Islamic insurgency, we have to go to the source … until radical Islam is defeated, it’s just going to be ‘whack a mole’ for a generation … until we stop that radical ideology that is fueling them, this is never going to end. – James Carafano	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
When there was a Republican administration, as a Democrat, at the risk of stating the obvious, I'm not so sure we spent much time working on the details more than how we were creating the sound bites to push (Republicans) back and take a whack at them. – Jim Manley	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There have been no surprises at IBM since we started buying it a few years ago, we expected revenue to come down. We expected a year like this where foreign exchange would take a whack off revenues. – Warren Buffett	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Juris suggested I put him over my knee and give him a whack. – Lois Greste	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Five or six grand for one of these things was crazy, the price was way out of whack.

– Klee Kleber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I was doing a play — there was a scene where another actor was all over my character and f---in’ bit me, and I was like,whack! Maybe he didn’t mean to, but he was taking things a little far.

– Kathleen Turner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The sheer volume, magnitude, and frequency of Facebook's controversies strongly suggests that the company's whack-a-mole approach is insufficient - Facebook needs to institutionalize stronger risk oversight mechanisms.

– Trillium Asset Management

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

He didn’t like confrontation, period, especially in his family. And everybody in his family was aware of it… From time to time, whether it was Barbara alone or the kids or a combination, some things would get out of whack. Frank Sinatra greeting a fan. (Courtesy of Eliot Weisman) I think he became more upset, depressed about those things... It bothered him when there was confrontation about who’s getting what in the future after his death… He wanted his wife taken care of and his kids taken care of fairly.

– Eliot Weisman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What we've seen over and over in the last years, China is unwilling to risk activities that threaten deadly force, it is possible to deter them. We'll have to keep deterring them over and over. That is the test for next 10 to 15 years in this game of whack-a-mole until the Chinese decide that this is not the way to do international relations.

– Gregory Poling

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We can't have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator thinks he's a whack job. you have to make deals. You have to get along. That's the purpose of what our founders created.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I know our guys are attacking the heads of (ISIS) and getting the intelligence that we need. right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole.

– Josh Cain

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole, that's probably where some work needs to be done.

– Josh Cain

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Barbara Bush is behind me—the looming figure that all children have—and she's about ready to whack me across the head if I try to be something I'm not.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The giant chip on the top represents all the wealth that's gone to the top 1% of the population over the last 10 years. And the way you eat it is, you whack it with your spoon and then you mix it around.

– Ben Cohen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we'll be playing whack-a-mole and there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The strong consensus is that in order for us to succeed long-term in this fight against (ISIS), we have to develop local security forces that can sustain progress. It is not enough for us to simply send in American troops to temporarily set back organizations like (ISIS), but then as soon as we leave see that void filled again by extremists, if we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we'll be playing whack-a-mole and there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This checklist of 10 reasons your internal thermostat is out of whack can help you get a handle on why you're chronically freezing your butt off. You're too thin Low body weight — defined as a BMI hovering around 18.5 or under — can chill you out for a couple of reasons. First, when you're underweight, you lack an adequate level of body fat to insulate you from cold temperatures, explained Maggie Moon, RD, a Los Angeles – based nutritionist. The other thing is, to maintain that low BMI, you have to reduce your food intake so you likely aren't eating very much at all. Skimping on calories puts the brakes on your metabolism, so you don't create enough body heat. Consider putting on a few pounds by loading up on whole, healthy foods that contain lots of protein, fat, and complex carbohydrates. RELATED : Subtle Signs of Eating Disorders Your Thyroid is out of whack Add cold intolerance to the long list of health issues you can blame on the butterfly-shaped gland in your neck. Always being cold is a telltale sign of hypothyroidism, which means Your Thyroid doesn't secrete enough thyroid hormone.

– Holly Phillips

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don't think you could ever presume it's behind you, but now we're in a position to understand what's happened, it's like playing Whack-A-Mole. They just pop up somewhere else.

– Donald McGurk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are still operating under the 2011 strategy and the problem with that is even if we drive ISIS out of Iraq, the [Obama] administration will just basically go back to sleep. They are not treating this for what it is – a global, Islamic insurgency, we have to go to the source … until radical Islam is defeated, it’s just going to be ‘whack a mole’ for a generation … until we stop that radical ideology that is fueling them, this is never going to end.

– James Carafano

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When there was a Republican administration, as a Democrat, at the risk of stating the obvious, I'm not so sure we spent much time working on the details more than how we were creating the sound bites to push (Republicans) back and take a whack at them.

– Jim Manley

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There have been no surprises at IBM since we started buying it a few years ago, we expected revenue to come down. We expected a year like this where foreign exchange would take a whack off revenues.

– Warren Buffett

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

– Lois Greste

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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