Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Offensively, Barrel posted the second-highest batting average, hitting .341. She, too, scored 18 times while batting in the number-three spot...
...physicist, "the program will soon have such momentum that there'll be no stopping it, regardless of merit." Says former Chief Arms Control Negotiator Paul Warnke: "What's happening is the rapid conversion of the President's Star Wars proposal from stardust and moonbeams to the great pork barrel...
Atimes, life for the two officers has been appalling. Like the old woman, felled by a heart attack, who had been partially eaten by her cats before her neighbors noticed the smell. Like the man who had tied a shotgun to his head, stuck the barrel in his mouth, and pulled the trigger...
...only part of a broader fusillade that the Pentagon is aiming at the defense industry. Last week the Defense Department revealed that it has hit Pratt & Whitney for a refund of $40 million in higher-than-expected profits made supplying jet- engine spare parts. The widest barrel, however, remains pointed at General Dynamics, the country's top defense contractor, which found itself facing investigations by a federal grand jury in Connecticut and a congressional subcommittee as well as by Pentagon auditors (see following story...
...over, he had them all thinking about humor, and he said that was the best part of the job. He recalled a bank president who had never cracked a joke, a man rarely given to laughter. After the Kushner treatment, the executive did not exactly become a barrel of monkeys, but he was able to cut loose with the odd one-liner. One venom-tongued supervisor, accustomed to dressing down tardy employees, now has the habit of saying, "So glad you could make it for lunch." The message is still clear, but it is not so much a brick...