Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this session, but when the proposals do get to Congress, Long will probably have more to do with their final shape than any other legislator. Right now, as the Senate's spokesman in the Joint House-Senate Committee on Energy, he is at the center of the struggle to hammer out an energy plan. Plainly, Long will play an important role in shaping the American economy and life-style for the remainder of the century...
...sleazy journalism." The "Spotlight Team," it noted, trailed Vellucci for only one day and failed to report that he legitimately signed out for the day before returning to Cambridge. The Real Paper discounted the Globe report as an easy wedge for the city's big real estate interests to hammer into chinks in the mayor's supposedly shining armor...
...week's end Carter turned a successful threeday, six-stop westward trip into a campaign to inspire grass roots support for his program. In Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California, Carter seized every chance he could find to hammer home the point that nothing less than the economic and military security of the nation rested on the fate of his energy legislation. He also placed his own prestige on the line, declaring at one point: "I have equated the energy policy legislation with either success or failure of my first year in office as a leader of our country...
...York Yankees yesterday at Chavez Ravine was everything a 1977 Dodgers' win was meant to be: brutally powerful and totally one-sided. Under manager Tommy LaSorda, the Dodgers are no longer the speed-and-fineesse team we came to know and love in the '60s. Now they prefer to hammer their way into our hearts...
Most officials in the City zoning office agree that down-zoning, like spot-zoning, is really not the best way to deal with Harvard. But after spending a summer hassling with Radcliffe in an effort to hammer out a building plan for the proposed athletic complex on Observatory Hill, many residents feel that the only way to take on the University is to enlist the city's help in negotiations...