gas siphoning, In your face, Suckers! margin of error, confrontational

East Village Explosion May Have Followed Gas Siphoning

By PATRICK McGEEHAN and AL BAKER

A theory in the explosion that killed two men and destroyed three buildings is that gas siphoning equipment was dismantled or hidden, and that an attempt to resume the tapping led to the blast.

Margaret Thatcher, who has died following a stroke, was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th Century.

Her legacy had a profound effect upon the policies of her successors, both Conservative and Labour, while her radical and sometimes confrontational approach defined her 11-year period at No 10.

A Margin for Error in Hedge-Fund Filings

Are some of the smart-money crowd playing investors for suckers? A new analysis raises more questions about the reported returns of a large universe of hedge funds.

What is margin of error in political science

Illegal Gas Siphoning May Have Caused East Village ...

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3 days ago - Thursday's explosion in the East Village may have been caused by repeated attempts to illegally siphon gas from commercial to residential ...

gas siphoning, 利用虹吸管將汽油吸到它處

the margin of error is the percentage of error that could be within a political study.
For example.....47% would vote for Obama with a margin of error of about plus ...
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in your face

Defiantly confrontational; also, an exclamation of contempt. For example, This show is not suitable for youngsters; its attitude about sex is in your face, or In your face, mister! This slangy expression originated in the 1970s in basketball as a phrase of contempt used against the opposing team and was extended to other areas by the mid-1980s.

sucker(sŭk'ər)
n.

1. One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.
2. Informal.
   1. One who is easily deceived; a dupe.
   2. One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: "The nation's capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture" (Jonathan Alter).
3. Slang.
   1. An unspecified thing. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: "our goal of getting that sucker on the air before old age took the both of us" (Linda Ellerbee).
   2. A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: He's a mean sucker.
4. A lollipop.
5. 1. A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.
   2. A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.
6. Any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae, having a toothless jaw and a thick-lipped mouth adapted for feeding by suction.
7. Zoology. An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.
8. Botany. A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.

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[形]対決的な（姿勢の）, 対立的な, 対決［対立］をも辞さない.