Word: cannonism
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Shevardnadze said last week, "I think that the ideal solution would be a neutral Germany. How realistic it is is a question." The answer is, not very realistic at all. A Germany separated from NATO and heavily armed against all comers would be a very large cannon loose on Europe's deck, more worrisome to Moscow than it would be if it were still inside the alliance...
...would wager, at the risk of becoming Crimson cannon-fodder, that average legacy applicant is more qualified for admission to Harvard than the average minority applicant. The Crimson would surely not like to acknowledge that this might be true...
...poet named Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...
...goal is that when we go to tournaments, we don't play the host team," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "We're not going to be anybody's cannon-fodder. So maybe now if we can beat Nebraska, that will stop...
...market was going like the Wabash Cannon Ball through 1988 and 1989, Bond's own finances were not. His bid for Irises had been part of a consistent pattern: paying far too much for investments even though they were, as assets, sound. In 1987 he paid more than $700 million for Kerry Packer's TV stations in Australia. In the financial year ending last June, Bond's media firm posted a $34 million loss. Also in 1987, Bond paid more than $1 billion for the U.S. brewery G. Heileman, whose 1989 resale value is about half that...