Word: bashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lampoonery II: Ostentation may have gone out with the Reagans, but the Harvard Lampoon doesn't seem to have caught on yet. A lavish bash the other night for millionaire motorcycle aficionado Malcolm S. Forbes, which reportedly cost somewhere in the $10,000 range, featured such tuxedo-clad cast in the hundreds. Once inside the Lampy castle, Forbes and crew were feted at the head table with a lavish meal. Other guests didn't get dinner, but there were drinks and hors d'oeuvres for all. But despite the big bucks lavished on the celebration, everything did not go without...
Mitterrand's conversion came early in his presidency, during the mid-1980s. His initial attempts to bash the private sector through a program of nationalization and state planning, coupled with a wealth tax, drove capital out of the country and cost workers their jobs. But he learned to make compromises with conservative politicians and alliances with industrialists to promote investment and stimulate employment...
After a spate of early-season injuries, the A's went into this week's games healthy and in the hitting groove. Their musclemen, designated hitter Dave Parker and the Bash Brothers -- first baseman Mark McGwire and rightfielder Jose Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean...
...Clark cannot do it all, and despite impressive home-run help from his partner in the so-called Pacific Sock Exchange, Kevin Mitchell, as well as from slugger Matt Williams, the Giants seem outgunned overall by the Bash Brothers & Associates. More important, the A's boast the best pitching staff in baseball: Dave Stewart (21-9), Mike Moore (19-11), Storm Davis (19-7) and Bob Welch (17-8). For a closer in relief they call on Dennis Eckersley, who saved 33 games in the regular season and three more against the Blue Jays in the playoffs...
...first ever Bay Bridge World Series pits the batting fireworks of Oakland's Bash Brothers vs. San Francisco's Sock Exchange, and Hot Dog Henderson vs. Will the Thrill...