Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue with Hart? Not whether he's the perfect husband. It's whether or not the man is telling the ; truth. Voters need to be able to trust candidates and Presidents, not take comfort in their successful marriages. In the past, candidates didn't feel so obliged to drag wives and husbands and kids onto the platform. Now it's become obligatory. And sometimes it leads to great anguish...
...fact is, most smokers want to quit." Many of them embrace the new corporate activism as an incentive to give up tobacco once and for all. At Rhode Island's Newport Daily News, it was the smokers who unanimously voted to ban smoking from the premises, although taking a drag is not a cause for dismissal...
Barbie threatened in a published interview to drag skeletons from closets in his defense. He said he might name some French collaborators "perhaps now enjoying positions of influence in modern France...
...loans that remain in banking hands, however, are of steadily decreasing quality in areas like oil-related activity, farming, real estate and Third World debt. The drag of those deteriorating assets has put the banking system at increasing long-term risk. In 1984 and 1985 U.S. banks had to write off between $15 billion and $16 billion worth of bad debts. In 1986 the figure is estimated at $21 billion. Last week, when many big banks reported their first-quarter earnings, the results were broadly depressed. Manufacturers Hanover's profits, for example, fell 21%, to $81 million, while Chase Manhattan...
...clerk did not give me a playing card. For my receipt, he gave me an object which was not only impossible to describe, but also so large and heavy that I had to drag it around by my foot as I traipsed through the store. This was behavior I had only seen at gas stations where they give you a men's room key attached to a spare tire to prevent you from absconding with...