"So, it was a double insult."

But Alaska faces a double insult.

Stephens often derides the senior partners as "overheads" - a double insult based on the fact that their offices are above the trading floor and, in his view, they eat up rent without bringing in any regular income.

"There's a double insult going on," said Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Democrat who represents Westchester.

The new success of Prada and Gucci, until recently more renowned for fashionable luggage than for what the fashionable might carry inside, has been a double insult.

For a moment, Killashandra was stunned by the double insult, though how Borella would have known where the Guild Master spent his time was unclear.

The verdict was an important validation to many blacks here that they can receive justice, following what they perceived as the double insult of the videotaped beating of Mr. King, who is black, and the acquittal a year ago of the white officers on assault charges.

Worf almost scoffed at the obvious attempt to rile him with the double insult.

This double insult was underscored this week when Senator Slade Gorton of Washington unveiled a bill that would scrap major provisions of the Endangered Species Act.

That Hedwick had extended the invitation was an insult; the way he'd given it was a double insult.