THIS month Italy's government sold a slug of five-year paper at one of its regular bond auctions.
A sweet custard seemed to conclude the meal, but it was followed by a salty sea slug topped with green chilies.
Two routes are required: a default route to find the home page and another route to find a page by its slug.
A cast iron sizzle plate none-too-subtlely shaped like a cow has a heavy slug of oil applied to it before being placed on a ferocious gas flame.
This robbed markets of a big slug of liquidity, almost certainly exacerbating the price falls.
Converting the new debt could also slam confidence without raising a big enough slug of equity capital to restore it.
But etymonline offers two other possibilities, a slang expression "fire a slug" that used to mean take a drink, or from Irish slog that meant swallow.
For instance, the server can use the value of the slug when creating the URI of the member resource or when setting the value of the title element in the Atom Entry Document.
They think that it could be a huge, unknown kind of sea slug.
The title and slug are string fields; prose is a text field; and the timestamps are date and time fields.
Like ageing boxers, big media firms have twice climbed into the ring to slug it out with high-tech outfits that seem to be building new business models with their property.
Write the slug, or name of your story, at the top of the page.
It didn't save the store, and the family has moved off, but the slug bugs in the dirt do attract attention.
Like a sheep or a slug, it eats plants.
The year, month, and slug provide useful context —just by looking at the URL alone, you know when it was written and perhaps have a rough idea what it is about.
Progress on both fronts would ensure Athens gets its next slug of loans in September as agreed.
The frog's reaction ensures the slug can't feed in peace and it heads off to find an easier meal.
If you look back in evolution to say, the sea slug Aplysia, you see that the building blocks of this brain have not changed.
I sold stock, preparing to trade another slug of calls.
Any of various mollusks of the class Gastropoda, such as the snail, slug, cowrie, or limpet, characteristically having a single, usually coiled shell or no shell at all, a ventral muscular foot for locomotion, and eyes and feelers located on a distinct head.
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