Word: blows
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...cases PLAP members say they enjoy most are, as might be expected, those they win. Last year, for instance, Kennedy represented a group of inmates at Walpole who were charged with conspiring to blow up one of the prison buildings...
...Reagan told reporters at week's end that Shultz had been mollified and that the Secretary would not be asked to take a lie-detector test himself. Shultz may not have had much success at pressing human rights in Eastern Europe last week, but he did strike a small blow for individual liberties...
Even so, any threat of oil prices plummeting to $20 or even $15 renews concerns about the financial stability of strapped petroleum producers like Mexico, which desperately needs oil income to pay its $96 billion debt. Rapidly falling prices would deal another blow to the U.S. energy belt. Banks and drilling companies there have seen the value of their energy investments tumble with previous drops in the price of oil and natural gas. Says Alan Edgar, a petroleum analyst for the Dallas investment firm Schneider, Bernet & Hickman: "The bankers have got to be nervous. Next year will be the worst...
...looked like we were going to blow them out the first half," Stanford Coach Tom Davis noted, "but Harvard wouldn...
First of all, there's the private thrill of defacing someone else's property in a small way. Especially at Harvard, where the enormity of the institution can feel overwhelming and alienating, writing graffiti can be a way of striking a small blow against the system...