misdemeanor, slider, fixing, smattering, fixture, microtargeting

Microtargeting — the kind of selective persuasion efforts that Reese dreamed of — has become a fixture of 21st-century campaigns. Field operatives now target swing voters house by house, carrying computer tablets loaded with polling, registration and market-research data. And everyone understands that in close presidential elections, a few thousand votes in one state or another may decide the winner.



Decades-old Michigan law against unmarried couples living together is on the verge of being reversed. The misdemeanor is punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine of up to $1,000.00.

2006 HP醜聞An earlier statement by the office of California Attorney General Jerry Brown had said the agency agreed to allow the four defendants in the case to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of fraudulent wire communications.


2005While Swiss banks agree to lift banking secrecy in criminal investigations of fraud and money laundering, they have come under pressure from the European Union and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to treat tax evasion as a criminal offense. In Switzerland tax evasion is a civil misdemeanor.

Oversalted burger leads to charges

Sun Sep 9, 2:02 PM ET
UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.

Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.
Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who "tried to thump the salt off."
On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. "It didn't make me sick," Bull told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick.
Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.
"If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?" said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months. She said she didn't know a police officer got one of the salty burgers because she couldn't see the drive-through window from her work area.
Police said samples of the burger were sent to the state crime lab for tests.
City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it."






This show of around 130 paintings and a smattering of drawings has an appropriate sweep.

The Google/Vanity Fair party Thursday night in Minneapolis for the Republican convention largely measured up to, and in some respects surpassed, the Google party in Denver.
The two parties were the same in concept--well-known politicians, unknown aides, and a smattering of Hollywood celebrities moved through rooms sporting colored themes, finger foods, and open bars. However, the lines at the bars in Minneapolis were shorter, and there was a greater selection of food: there were chocolate-covered strawberries, sushi, sliders, and even a mashed potato bar complete with fixings like lobster and caviar.

smattering
n.

1. Superficial or piecemeal knowledge: “a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing” (Charles Dickens). 略知萬事 無ㄧ真知

a smattering of Latin...

1. A small, scattered amount or number: a smattering of raindrops.

slider

• Slider (sometimes spelled Slyder), a hamburger sold by the White Castle restaurant chain
• Naval slang for a cheeseburger

fixing
n. (fĭks"ĭng)
1. The act or process of making fixed.
2. That which is fixed; a fixture.
3. pl. Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. [Colloq. U.S.]



misdemeanor 
noun [C] US LEGAL
a crime considered to be one of the less serious types of crime━━ n. 【法】軽犯罪; 非行, 不品行.
misdemeanour UK, US misdemeanor 
noun [C]
an action which is slightly bad or breaks a rule but is not a crime:
sexual/youthful misdemeanours

Every week, as children, we were beaten for some minor misdemeanour.