Word: beg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never, never, never, I beg of you, go the way of incomes policies [wage and price guidelines] in the sense that you say, "You can only have X percent." You build in all sorts of rigidities. Never go that way, because you'll spend the next two years unwinding the distortions. And they always unwind upward...
...guards anything but his name, rank and serial number. As a result, he was beaten and one of his teeth was knocked out. Most of the hostages were allowed 20-minute walks outside their rooms once a week without harassment, but Jerry Miele, 42, a communications officer, had to beg for his walk. When he did get out, a guard kept playing with the trigger of an automatic weapon pointed at Miele's chest...
...pays Spelling-Goldberg Productions only $583,000, leaving a deficit of between $800,000 and $900,000 a season. It is generally not until a series is sold for syndication that the deficit is erased and the big profits begin. Until then, producers borrow, worry about cost overruns and beg the networks for more money...
...Leverett House junior hopes to improve what he terms "the second-rate treatment" the soccer team receives. "We have to almost beg them to cut the grass on the day of a game...Yet they're out there with blow dryers on the football field," Duggan added...
...calculate the political costs involved, and run, not walk, the other way. But should the impossible happen, should they decide to save the cities and towns, the result would be just as disastrous. With no control over large chunks of their revenue, the cities and towns would have to beg individually from the state legislature for outlays, removing all local control and autonomy. Those who have compared state and local government know which is more efficient. Those who haven't need only contrast Gov. Edward J. King with, say, Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and decide which is more...