Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...room for error. "Running an LBO is different from running other companies," says Wilbur Ross, a senior managing director of Rothschild Inc., a New York City investment firm. "The reaction time at LBO companies has got to be a lot quicker, because they must generate cash fast enough to beat those interest-payment deadlines...
...Mort was better. He was the [gerundive] [a part of the body]. I mean, all those shows made you laugh, but Mort, he was different. He made you laugh, scream your lungs out and beat up the person next to you all at the same time. Dick Van Dyke can't do that...
Since then, Hazelwood has been a man under siege. Not long after the accident, a TV reporter beat him to the mailbox and rifled through his letters until neighbors chased her away. Other journalists have surrounded his home, flashing cameras through windows and banging on doors. Still others have stolen bags of garbage from the curb. Then there are the sneers of strangers, the steady stream of Hazelwood songs and jokes, the death threats to his family from anonymous callers, some of whom promise to blow the pretty yellow house to smithereens. Whatever respite Hazelwood may have enjoyed...
...were caught by other stories, like allegations against former Attorney General Ed Meese and the Iran-contra scandal. HUD remained the gulag of Washington journalism, a backwater with an obscure chief administrator they dubbed "Silent Sam" Pierce. There was a distinct lack of glitz and glamour about the HUD beat. "We were looking elsewhere," explains syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. "We don't have enough eyes to look at HUD. The very name HUD says dullness, dullness, dullness...