Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not, it seemed, communicate any sense of concern over Canada's appallingly high unemployment rate of 7.1 %. As a Cabinet colleague cynically put it, Trudeau was simply unable to "bleed a little" for the electorate. At the same time, the Prime Minister scraped the bottom of pork-barrel politics, promising such "goodies," or so he called them, as a wharf for Yarmouth, N.S., new port facilities for Halifax and a federal park for Toronto. The effect on the voters was evident at the polls. Early in the campaign the Liberals were favored by 44% of the voters...
...homo than hetero, Butley is further staggered to learn that his colleague-protégé is dropping him for another lover. To compound the bitterness, Butley's book on T.S. Eliot is getting absolutely nowhere. Butley is the human equivalent of a rotting apple in a rotting barrel...
...fire that started in a back-room trash barrel raced through the building, which in its Hotel Astoria days had served as General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters, gutting it in a matter of minutes. The fire was the most spectacular that Paris had seen in years, and one of the most costly, with damages estimated at $20 million. The towering flames were visible as far away as Montmartre and Montparnasse. Six employees managed to escape from the burning building, one by jumping into the arms of onlookers. A Drugstore accountant was not so lucky. Firemen found her charred body...
...evening three weeks ago, Auto Salesman José Jiménez Lizcano was talking with a young customer in front of his home in Nuevo Laredo, just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. Suddenly, a late-model yellow Mustang cruised past, and a gunman stuck the barrel of an AR-15 automatic rifle out the window and fired a burst at the two men. Jiménez, whom someone in the underworld apparently suspected of working with the police, escaped the second attempt on his life in nine months and promptly departed for Chicago. His customer, a young carpet...
...Whom do the Democrats think they are kidding? We are not all a bunch of idiots who believe everything we hear or see. Mr. McGovern had to scrape the bottom of the barrel when he was looking for a running mate...