Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treaties are a cover for the treasonous greed of those who manipulate the Administration." The representatives of interested elites, he believes, have taken over the Administration at the expense of the average person. People such as Howard Baker and Frank Carlucci, for example, have "advance policies that benefit Armand Hammer and David Rockefeller but hurt America." Egged on by Nancy, the President now "pays court to the Washington establishment." Representing those on the political fringes of society, Phillips finds any politician who fails to divide the world into starkly contrasting good and evil camps treasonously willing to sacrifice the country...
While some delegates tried to hammer out theirpositions on the issues in Science Center B,keeping the pages busy as they passed notes in aneffort to forge alliances, others took a morefrivolous tack...
...Derek Counts 13-4--31; Dave Marshall 2-2--6; Keith Carpenter 1-0--2; Chris Perkins 5-5--15; Dave Murray 4-1--9; Keith Hinderlie 4-0--8; Tommy Hammer 0-0--0; Greg Walker 0-0--0. totals...
...White smoke meant a very large explosion. A bomb that detonated so powerfully and quickly that it sucked the oxygen out of the air, leaving a white plume of smoke." The author also occasionally strains a little too hard to keep pulses racing. Hearts pound in chests "like a hammer against an anvil." Women have a habit of showing up not simply undressed but "completely naked...
...foreign exchanges Friday cannot be brushed off. If the wild week proved anything, it was that in an era when the U.S. is dependent on foreign goods and capital, no exchange is an island. Price breaks overseas can touch off panic in the U.S., which can then hammer prices down further abroad; that, in fact, is roughly what happened Monday and Tuesday...