Word: bludgeon
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...times may be changing. After a bruising annual-meeting season during which CalPERS wielded its $166 billion portfolio like a bludgeon, members of its board gathered in Lake Tahoe, Nev., in July to take stock. One invited speaker, Richard Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from...
...President and that the danger is still real. Moving now is particularly important for Bush, since his once unassailable advantage on fighting terrorism has shrunk to just 8 percentage points in the polls. Kerry pounced on the findings of the 9/11 commission last week, using them as a bludgeon, charging that Bush was derelict for not aggressively embracing its recommendations. Very soon--perhaps as early as this week, aides say--the President will appropriate some of those ideas and offer...
...techniques. Moore argues that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were designed only to enrich the Bush family with oil money. For Moore, Sept. 11 wasn't the cause of the war on terrorism. It was a pretext for corruption. He cannot prove this, and so he tries to bludgeon the viewer emotionally to that conclusion. He uses innuendo, sly editing, parody, ridicule and somber voice-overs to give his mere assertions a patina of truth...
...star?especially in the dark of night ... I had to be a star for the poor people, and at the same time, I had to be a slave. I had to enslave myself so that everybody became a star." If Imelda is a hit piece, its subject wielded the bludgeon herself...
...West Indian Brian Lara's nor as sublime as Indian Sachin Tendulkar's, but his wicket had become the most prized in cricket. Other batsmen could take a bowling attack apart, but Waugh, using both bat and niggling remarks (or what he liked to call "mental disintegration"), would bludgeon it and then bury it to make sure it never bothered his team again...