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jack

1. n. money. I don’t have the jack for a deal like that.

2. n. tobacco for rolling cigarettes. You got some jack I can bum?

3. n. nothing. (Probably from jack-shit.) Your last idea wasn’t worth jack. Do I pay you to come up with stuff that bad?

4. n. a strange person; an annoying person. (Possibly from jackass or jack-shit.) Willy, stop acting like such a jack!

5. tv. to steal something. I didn’t buy it, I jacked it!

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Then the finale came, and Jack and company saved Los Angeles from a nuclear bomb thanks to a wild series of strategies that included brutal torture.

Watching torture in prime time

Even after administration officials admitted the illegal arrangement with Williams, even after President Bush promised that it wouldn't happen again, even after similar arrangements with other government agencies and so-called independent reporters were uncovered, and even after extensive media coverage, including a lengthy Frank Rich New York Times column condemning the incident, Jack O'Dwyer still was not satisfied.

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There were some horrific stories of mistreatment with this scheme but Jack was lucky.

The death of a "very married man."

When I first became friendly with Jack Pulec, MD, in 1969, I was struck by his youth (even though he was 17 years older than I).

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Billy Jack was a very trusting person," says Doug Burke, Gaither's hairstylist and close friend.

The sad death of Billy Jack

Belinda Jack is also among the first scholars to examine Martin Steins' 1981 (University of Paris III) French state doctoral dissertation on L.

Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French

On his 1998 return, Jack would report total income of $235,000 ($80,000 salary + $140,000 passthrough + $15,000 liquidation gain).

Timing liquidation distributions for tax savings

I saw a lot of Jack Smith during a period when I was basically a speed freak.

Jack by popular demand

in 1991 to accept his current job with DuPont, Jack worked with the NAIC on a leadership level.

Each one, teach one: educating African American about the stock market

But now the WB network's Dawson's Creek has ventured into that new territory by having one of its main characters, Jack (Kerr Smith), begin to explore his sexuality in all its uncomfortable uncertainty.