Word: gavels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then I looked over at my desk where I still keep the gavel that was presented to me at the end of my term, reassuring myself that my presidency was not a mere figment of my imagination...
That's my gavel, and the first meeting of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Harvard Sports Fans is now in session...
...single influence guiding the production with confidence. The countless surreal touches, each individual in its humor, share an outrageousness which unifies otherwise disparate scenes. The Monty Pythonesque floweryrobed, curler-toting, cake-gobbling housewife is clearly related in tone to the manic judge, wig askew, smashing his vast gavel against his alpine podium. The same hand is evident in the Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee act of Supervacuo and Ambitioso, the bathtub suicide of Lutecia and the conversational blowjob Vindice gives Rapacioso...
...SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION FINALly dropped the gavel in the Salomon Brothers trading scandal. In its toughest enforcement action in the case, the SEC filed a civil lawsuit against the two former Salomon executives who allegedly engineered the 1991 scheme to submit phony bids in U.S. Treasury auctions. The government is seeking unspecified fines and court injunctions against former managing directors Paul Mozer and Thomas Murphy. Mozer and Murphy, who both contest the suit, also face possible criminal indictments. But not all of the SEC's actions had as much bite. In a settlement that some observers criticized as toothless...
...40th annual Harvard Model U.N. began with the fall of the gavel last night at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, as students grouped by school will represent all 179 countries belonging...