Word: corraled
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Kaifu's political collapse followed a week of legislative maneuvering that dramatized his inability to corral party support. A set of political-reform bills was killed in the Diet at the committee level. Kaifu erupted in anger and hinted that he might dissolve the assembly. It was an empty threat that cost Kaifu what little party respect he enjoyed...
...tidy source of revenue from little watched time periods. (Half an hour of postmidnight airtime can bring in between $5,000 and $20,000 in big-city markets.) For an advertiser with a steam iron or self-help course to flog, an infomercial can be a good way to corral viewers for a long, hard sell. A 30-minute ad for a hand mixer from Kitchenmate cost just $125,000 to make and has generated $55 million in sales, according to its producer, the Guthy-Renker Corp. Altogether, infomercials generated $500 million in sales last year; that figure is expected...
...idea of a federally mandated seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns has cleared a major hurdle, setting the stage for the legislative equivalent of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
...could have served equally well as the theme song for the annual economic summit of the world's richest democracies held in Houston last week. Just as the Soviet Union's power to ride herd on its neighbors has been crippled by its domestic turmoil, America's ability to corral its allies has been hampered by two factors: the burgeoning economic clout of Japan and West Germany and the belief that the communist threat to Western security has receded. Today the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy -- known in diplomatese as the Group of Seven -- might just...
...their cars. Women were screaming. It was panic." Blocks away, turn-of-the-century houses swayed and crumpled. The entire downtown area, including the Pacific Garden Mall, was devastated. Three people were crushed to death. Outside Santa Cruz, the community closest to the quake's epicenter, a corral collapsed. As six frightened horses ran across a nearby road, a pickup truck plowed into them; the driver was killed...