Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wintry wind of recession is beginning to batter Detroit. Car-dealer showrooms have become uncomfortably quiet in the past several weeks. Consumers are staying away because of increasing layoffs, widespread credit tightening among banks and climbing gasoline prices. Detroit has tried to keep sales up by discounting aggressively, but that has only hurt profits. When the Big Three posted their third-quarter earnings last week, the results were dismal. Ford's profits fell 79% from a year ago, to $101.7 million, its worst performance in eight years. Chrysler fared even worse, showing a $214 million loss, compared with...
Most men, of course, do not rape or batter or kill. But that doesn't mean, as too many of them seem to think, that they have nothing to do with violence against women. Each of us in our daily lives helps shape the cultural images and assumptions that define the limits of the permissible. In the case of racial bigotry, we see this clearly: civilized whites don't tell racist jokes or defend the virulent gabfests on talk radio as harmless spleen venting. Where violence and misogyny are concerned, though, men just don't seem to get it. Give...
...drug-taking group realized what Blankenhorn terms a "spectacular reduction" in their total cholesterol, and 16% of them showed decreases in their arterial plaque. "As long as you don't batter arteries with cigarettes and high cholesterol," he concluded, "they have a remarkable healing ability...
Bush's strength as a public figure has always resided elsewhere. In Looking Forward, his campaign autobiography, he told the story of the Yale headgrounds keeper who, after weeks of watching Bush swinging and missing in the batter's box, wrote him a note: "I am convinced the reason you are not getting more hits is because you do not take a real cut at the ball. If you would put more power behind your swing, you would improve your batting average 100%." Bush added that he took the advice, and brought his average up over .250. This story...
Watching Ryan's smooth, ferocious delivery, a fan sees the sport at its elemental best. For baseball is a game of catch. A pitcher throws the ball, and the batter watches. Half the time, according to a study in The Stats Baseball Scoreboard, he does not even swing. On more than 60% of all pitches, his bat does not touch the ball. The result is a lot more whiffs now than in the old days. Last year batters earned 3% more bases on balls than in 1930, but struck out 75% more often. Flash, not finesse, is the hallmark...