By the FBI's definition – four or more killed rather than four or more shot, a "mass murder" event rather than a "mass shooting" – there have been 45 such incidents this year, and 142 since Sandy Hook.
The fluctuation of stress wave intensity is attributed to the selective ablation caused by the micro-non-uniformity on the sample surface with different mass loss per shot.
A combination of lower prices, increased content and a critical mass of awareness shot sales of digital televisions up 60% to $17 billion in 2005, according to a recent Consumer Electronics Association report.
Some were killed opportunistically, but most were killed in a full-scale military operation: hands tied and blindfolded, they were lined up before freshly dug mass graves and shot in the back.
An approximate calculation suggests that about 0.3% of the mass of lead shot that strike a gamebird fragment into small particles that are unlikely to be removed during food preparation or by the consumer.
Unlike the more squeamish "Hotel Rwanda," "Beyond the Gates" confronts the physical reality of mass slaughter in shots of city streets littered with hacked-up bodies.
After he hit what he called a "critical mass" of bird shots and had begun interviewing the birders (who included the novelist Jonathan Franzen), he decided the bird pictures weren't as good as he wanted.
The N.B.A.'s premier center — a towering, talented mass of muscle, shot-blocking and bravado — was fitted for a Los Angeles Lakers jersey Friday, leaving fans of 29 other teams a small range of emotional options.
Some galleries are not letting the online masses get a shot at their best art works because "placing" a work in an important collection is critical to developing an artist's reputation (and market value).Giuseppe Eskenazi, one of London's leading oriental art dealers, still feels that "what we sell is something that needs to be looked at and discussed".
It's also hard to pick through the sheer mass of screen shots.
The Nakamura spectral ratio can reveal the predominant resonance frequency evolution rule of coal-rock mass after relieve-shot being discovered.
