Word: barb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more personal barb came from columnist George Will, who has close ties to the Reagans. He noted archly that when Bush returned from his February trip to Asia, he called to consult with former President Jimmy Carter rather than Reagan. That may explain Bush's eagerness last week to recruit Reagan for special diplomatic missions to Asia and elsewhere...
...also threw a well-deserved barb at House Speaker Jim Wright for the manifest ethics problems which soon will engulf him and the rest of the Democratic leadership of the House. Opposition to Wright is advocated by everyone concerned about ethics--everyone, that is, except for anyone who hopes to rise within the Democratic Party...
...spring arrived on the Texas prairie last week, farmers and ranchers were fighting a range war that packed all the fury of a Panhandle twister. At the eye of the storm was Jim Hightower, the state's populist, barb-witted agriculture commissioner. Outside Texas, Hightower is best known for regaling the Democratic National Convention last year with his zingers about George Bush, who he said "was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." Hightower provoked national attention again early this year when he urged cattlemen to grow hormone-free cattle in response to the European Community...
...giving banks an invitation to shoot craps with the taxpayer's money." So said Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, with a touch of hyperbole. The object of his barb: a Fed ruling last week that will permit five leading bank holding companies -- Bankers Trust New York, Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, J.P. Morgan and Security Pacific -- to buy and sell corporate bonds. The decision will enable the financial institutions to move, within strict limits, onto the turf of Wall Street firms, which have been encroaching on the banking business. Said Richard Huber, an executive vice...
...Crimson lost two starters, forward Sharon Hayes and guard Barb Keffer, who combined to average 26 points per game last season and finished as Harvard's top two all-time scorers. Also missing from the Harvard roster will be defensive wizard Nancy Cibotti and the tenacious Mary Baldauf...