Word: ham-handedness
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The ruse was such a ham-handed throwback, so lacking in the artful subtlety that the new Kremlin leadership is supposed to prize so highly, that analysts were stunned. One week earlier the FBI in New York City had arrested Gennadi Zakharov, a Soviet citizen employed at the U.N., after...
Across much of the country a special kind of Greek revival is thriving on the campuses. College students have pushed national undergraduate membership in fraternities from 230,000 in 1980 to more than 400,000. Sororities, which record no countrywide membership total, have added 131 chapters in the past three...
However, the line between negative advertising so blatant that it infuriates voters and slightly less ham-handed ads that impress them is elusive. In Texas, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election with the aid of a TV ad that pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding...
In theory, a desktop computer could be a labor-and time-saving boon to executives with a voracious need for information about the state of their businesses. But some managers complain that computers are simply too hard to use. Mervyn Weich, 44, senior vice president of Zayre Corp., a retailing...
Mobil, however, has been ham-handed in its efforts to buy another oil company. Some industry observers blame its failures on the insistence of Chairman Rawleigh Warner and President William Tavoulareas that they plan their own tactics without consulting outside advisers. Mobil lost out to Du Pont in the contest...