Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moves elsewhere, but that is clearly not enough. No corporation is eager to move to a remote outpost; until some do, there are no jobs to attract workers. That applies to the government too. "Why does Pemex (the national oil monopoly) have headquarters here when not a single barrel of oil is produced in Mexico City?" asks Pablo Emilio Madero, head of the opposition National Action Party. "The same
Kaplan added that he expects to have "a barrel of laughs" at Harvard. A graduate of both the College and Harvard Law School, he said he knows a lot of people around the University...
...equipment in exchange for Government-backed loans, and so forth. It is an interesting idea, until one recalls the exhausting battles that invariably surround a single corporate bailout, such as that of Lockheed or Chrysler Corp. Moreover, an industrial recovery and reinvestment bill could easily become a hopeless pork barrel by the time lobbyists and horse-trading Congressmen finish with it. Such outcomes trouble many new-generation Democrats. "I am not sure Americans respond well to economic plans with a capital P," says Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...
...idea is that Ronald Reagan leans back in his leather barrel chair, takes out his felt-tipped pen, looks out over the Rose Garden and writes a note to the other member of the superpower club, Konstantin Chernenko...
...course we had our reasons. We knew that we were, and would remain, a minority. But more importantly, we assumed that capitalism's power came, as we used to say, from the barrel of the gun: the Vietnamese, the Panthers, and the protestors in University Hall seemed to prove that. The fact that the vast majority of American voters, by secret ballot in free and general elections, vote for the capitalist system every time they are given the chance seemed to us some kind of trick...