Word: battered
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...Democrat who was chief economic adviser to both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, argues that the Administration's deficit spree might induce such tight money that it would abort any recovery. Heller wants to shrink the deficit mainly by raising taxes in 1983, a step that could batter the economy even lower. Some conservative economists predict that the result of the red ink will be higher interest rates. Says Burton Malkiel, an adviser to Gerald Ford and now dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management: "You have a $100 billion deficit running smack against a tight rein...
...negotiated agreement")--to determine what action to take should talks collapse. Other sections instruct diplomats that "being nice is no answer" and urge negotiators to "listen actively and acknowledge what is being said" and to "make the most of your assets." That's sort of like reminding a baseball batter to remember to bring his bat to the plate, and to keep his eye on the ball: You can't dispute the ideas, but they won't put a strike-out king on base...
Even in confinement, the horses refuse to give up easily. They stomp and batter at the grating, and resist every effort to trailer them to a larger enclosure. Robison must cut off the colts from their mothers for the trip to the adoption distribution center. One young upstart sends him flying against the fence, and it takes his best hammerlock to wrestle him down...
Hastings, "Haster" as they called him, was never what you'd call a guess hitter. Though not particularly fleet of foot, he was blessed with extraordinary quickness. Haster would stand in the batter's box, facing the fireballer, or screwballer, or what have you 60 feet away, and figure that whatever that pitcher could throw, he had good enough reflexes...
Finnegan was a fireballer, and with a couple of timely aids form his distant outfield, he kept Harvard at bay most of the afternoon. When Haster stepped into the batter's box in the sixth inning, the game was locked in a scoreless...