After the amazingness of last week's episode I trusted that the finale would be of an even higher caliber.
That includes availability of weapons designed primarily for war such as assault rifles, (yes, I know that technically that term means fully automatic- but not to the public) and even 50 caliber sniper rifles that can penetrate the engine of a car.
The more legitimate side of industrial spying involves gathering competitive intelligence: for example, store or competitor checkers (including secret/mystery shoppers) might visit their competition to check out the layout, prices, styles, even the caliber of staff, etc., that their competitor has; in this last case, the spied-on store is very likely doing it back to its competition!
The disability seems to center in the part of the brain that processes language, making it difficult for even genius-caliber children to learn the sounds that correspond to the letters of the alphabet.
Even small-caliber guns are easily loud enough to permanently damage your hearing, and they throw off unexpended powder, small particles of carbon and brass casings that can fly into your eyes and cause serious injury.
Still, except for players of Marshall's caliber, even the restricted market could be slow.
"Pálpito" does accomplish one thing: It makes the other two works on the program seem high caliber, even though they're not.
Writers from Flaubert to David Foster Wallace have attempted it, and its difficulties may be gauged by the fact that only writers of that caliber even consider trying.
Even if this caliber of MacDowell advocacy were possible today (we have no Liszts or Seidls), the results might sound intolerably earnest.
And yet, gun rights advocates famously maintain that individual gun ownership, even of high caliber weapons, is the defining mark of our freedom as such, and the ultimate guarantee of our enduring liberty.
At some level, many of the players probably agreed with their fans, who felt that the Giants really were not a championship team, maybe not even of playoff caliber.
