It has pierced the top 30 news Web sites many times in the last 18 months.
It has pierced the veil of silence that, for decades, has obscured the astounding growth of what can fairly be called plutocracy.
But the company, which says it has pierced more than 100 million ears worldwide, is now struggling financially, with a heavy debt burden.
The retailer — which says it has pierced 94 million ears, more than any other company — has reported 11 consecutive quarters of declining sales and racked up more than $2 billion in debt, prompting speculation among analysts that it could be among the next to face big trouble.
That famous image by Mr. Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. who died in 1990, shows a drooping bullet with a slightly blunted tip just after it has pierced a sheet of plexiglass; he captured it with a strobe light.
It has pierced me unlike any other pain in my 45 years.
This allows you to hold your tragus steady and stops the needle from continuing after it has pierced your tragus.
After it had pierced the German defense and produced a flanking menace to the central sector, Zhukov's armies in the centre of the front bounded forward from their bridgeheads nearer Warsaw.
"I have a camera 25 yards deep in the woods," ESPN's Judy Rankin told Roy. "Have they found the ball yet?" "No," Rankin said, but a few minutes later, Roy asked for a replay of the shot, and it was rolled in quickly, showing how it had pierced the thick trees.
At the time, the Sri Lankan government denied the army had caused civilian casualties but said it had pierced rebel defences.
