Word: bended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first the skirmish prompted a bit of anxiety among moneymen, especially when Seger declared that the board was no longer Volcker's "one-man show." Financiers feared that the Reagan appointees might lower the Federal Reserve's guard against inflation and bend too much to the Administration's eagerness to expand the economy. Said Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "Any pretense of the Fed being nonpolitical is now gone...
...ECAC Weakness Theory. The ECAC is the weaker conference in the East and therefore, the committee could bend tradition to ensure that the ECAC got the best possible chance to send one representative to the Final Four. Giving Harvard home ice represents that best chance. Along these same lines, the committee fed the tournament champion, Cornell, to the lions--sent it to Denver--because it felt the Red was doomed in this clash of titans anyway...
...honest, Playboy panders to the lacivious interests of adolescent boys who want to look at the bunny strip, show lots of breast and bend over a chair. Look, you can masturbate in front of the anonymous Miss March and now you can in front of a junior from Harvard. "Miss Harvard could you turn to the left a little more, I can't get enough of a shot of your breasts...
...lecture on plaintiff rights and judicial history. The greatest frustration is that no one who can do something about it is looking at all the facets." The bitterness between the two professions by now is deeply felt, and lawyers in particular may feel they have little need to bend since they benefit from the status quo. But if attorneys decline to compromise, they could find reforms, even the least palatable ones, imposed on them...
...chic, is a royal consideration. "You'd be amazed what one has to worry about," she says. "You've got to put your arm out to get some flowers, so you can't have something too revealing, and you can't have hems too short because when you bend over, there are six children looking up your skirt." Diana has shifted from the rather frumpy, pastel suits of the engagement period to sleek, sophisticated ensembles and romantic hats. For evening wear she favors slinky numbers with daring back slits or fairy-like gossamer gowns. What is engaging about her sense...