choir n.— «Britain’s first convicted war criminal was sentenced to a year in prison and dismissed from the army Monday in connection with the death of an Iraqi hotel worker. The victim died of asphyxia after being held in stress positions...
big snip n.— «From this point on, I vow never to wince in imaginary pain, cross my legs in a mock protection stance, refer to it as “the big snip,” or make that clicking sound that my wife is quite fond of making when another guy talks to...
pain point n.— «Quebec small businesses have the second-highest labor “pain points.”…On a national basis, the survey found 70 per cent of small businesses had serious problems with labor laws and regulations...
pain point n.— «Digital “is recognizing that security for corporations using the Internet is a major pain point right now.…But the dilemma is that there is a conflict between the amount of security you provide and the...
pain point n.— «At some point, putting things into a subset of the machine becomes too painful to do with conventional technologies.…What frequency or pinout you have to change at is hard to tell; people push technology until it...
pain point n.— «The falling dollar is a threat. We’ve reached the pain point.» —“The Dollar Is Casting A Widening Pall Over Europe” by Blanca Riemer et al. BusinessWeek (42) Feb. 8, 1988. (source: Double...