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"Right in the middle of a crisis and they have to short me.

Investors who short the market are betting that prices will fall.

But shorting is not explained until the second half of the book.

Either communications were shorting out, or he had turned away.

The wires shorted and every light in the house went out.

By 1973, the highway had been shorted to 10.7 miles.

First, shorting the stock of your own company is illegal.

Something had shorted out, he said, so we needed a new computer for the stove.

A main wire would go dead after it shorted three times.

"It must have been shorted out when we were caught in the energy net."

He shorted them on their checks and there was nothing they could do about it.

To fire the flash, these two pieces are shorted together.

"Something's shorted out the power to all of the sensors."

Why pay if you can get the same benefits by shorting without borrowing?

Those who believe that the company will not cover the cost of the plant until next year might have shorted the stock, he said.

So far, shorting is still a specialists' game, but a growing one.

There was a problem with some of the computer circuits shorting.

By the next chow call everybody who's ever been shorted will be coming over to us.

He says initially each trip took an hour, which has been shorted to 45-50 minutes.

It caught Jay on the side of the head and shorted out all thought.

On more than one occasion I would have shorted myself thousands of dollars.

Shorting the lights out, therefore, should not be to his advantage.

"The cars were shorting out, and every one did something different.

The currently 8 rounds will be shorted down to 7.

Electrical power had shorted out in most areas of the stadium.

All he needed was some water, and he'd short out the field.

From what she could sense, any three of them would be enough to short out the house's entire system.

No reason to short out everyone else on the system if you could avoid it.

Maybe I could find something to short out the fence.

That will short out all the lights in this section.

A large enough ball of ants will short out some systems.

"It will be best to take Short out of here," suggested the physician.

The amenities of civilization are a little short out there.

At least it won't short out the rest of the fence.

"But what if it can short out a phaser the same way?"

Whether he stopped short out of decency or weakness is never quite clear.

Higher than that and we could short out the cooling fins on top.

Either communications were shorting out, or he had turned away.

At some point the water level became high enough to short out the main electrical distribution panel.

Never use a heat rock as they can often cause thermal burns and are known to short out.

The water spreads and causes the tape player to short out.

Something had shorted out, he said, so we needed a new computer for the stove.

"It must have been shorted out when we were caught in the energy net."

How did the hackers manage to short out his laptop?

"Something's shorted out the power to all of the sensors."

I hope we didn't short out the entire town,she thought, then leaned forward and threw up.

It's going to short out some stuff, I'm sure.

It caught Jay on the side of the head and shorted out all thought.

"I would not have wanted to short out our instruments," the pilot breathes.

"The cars were shorting out, and every one did something different.