Word: hammer
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This week OPEC's pricing and strategy committees will meet in Madrid in an effort to hammer out a production agreement that its members can abide by. If that effort fails, as many experts believe it will, OPEC ministers will get another chance to resolve their differences when they reconvene in Vienna in late November...
...Rude and Smooth," the undefeated 1974-5 Harvard men's heavyweight boat, is a fixture at the Head. Former Olympian (1984) and Christopher R. "Tiff" Wood '75, known as "The Hammer," will return this year to lead the "Rude and Smooth" boat...
...comparison with the $2.7 billion, three-year pricetag on the Senate bill, the House package would cost about $7.5 billion. Congressional leaders hope negotiators can hammer out a compromise before the House and Senate adjourn for the year at week...
Part of the reason is that disqualifications have primarily been confined to other, less popular sports -- especially weight lifting and field events, like the hammer throw and shot put. But much of the shock is a by-product of the fascination with the 100-meter dash. That most elemental, primordial event is run, at least in the mind, by almost every child on earth, and its Olympic champion occupies a place of honor as the fastest man alive. He is the heir of Harold Abrahams of Chariots of Fire fame, of Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes and Carl Lewis. What other...
Granted, for the candidates these debates are a highly effective, inexpensive way for them to hammer out their major themes and to paint their opponents as soft on crime, disingenuous or unpatriotic in the public eye. But does the highly rigid structure of these debates really help the American voter make a more informed choice over which candidates would make the better president? Maybe, but I doubt...