Word: hammer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Well, those CPI [Consumer Price Index] numbers are still hanging over this market like a hammer. There's a big fear that Alan Greenspan has no room to move. The rally at the end of the day was a good sign, although it'd be more encouraging if it had happened on its own instead of on a Fed rumor...
...exciting and surprising display of compromise, Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) has stepped over party lines to hammer out a compromise over a patients' bill of rights with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass). The McCain-Kennedy bill defines patients' rights for emergency care and treatment by specialists. But, most importantly, the bill also provides for a new patient's right to sue health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that do not provide adequate care...
...Interim agreements, of course, will require something of a mind shift on the Palestinian side, too. Two weeks ago their negotiators were meeting Israel's acting foreign minister in the Sinai to hammer out the details of proposals to hand over 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, and divide up Jerusalem. But "concessions" for Sharon are more likely to involve such moves as lifting Israel's security closure of Palestinian territories and opening a safe passage route between the West Bank and Gaza, rather than withdrawing from much of the 55 percent of the West Bank...
...nothing else they probably have enough registered voters [10] to sign a petition, which is allowed under the ordinance," Hammer says...
...extracting little metal teeth. Down the hall, a jumble of bright green motherboards spills out onto a conveyor belt headed toward a shredder that will rip them to cracker-size pieces of plastic. And around the corner, a clean-cut guy in a black work smock takes a big hammer and smashes one hard drive after another before tossing them into a huge bin marked ALUMINUM...