Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accuracy needed in an ordinary coal-fired facility. "It's like building a giant Swiss watch," says David Freeman, a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates two atomic plants. Many nuclear construction crews tried to build these Swiss watches with little more than the skills needed to hammer together a coal burner. Delays and repairs have led to catastrophic cost overruns, which have plagued many plants completed in recent years as well as some of those currently under construction. Florida's new St. Lucie 2 facility, which was built and brought on line in six years...
...team its first Beanpot in 28 tries. The film captures Turner behind the net, up on his toes, arms raised, waiting for his teammates to mob him. The losing Boston College goalie, Bob O'Connor, having flopped to the ice, looks behind him, where the puck and teammate Paul Hammer are both in the net. And O'Neil, a freshman winger, skating past the goal a little too late, is about to smash his stick in frustration across the goalpost. The picture ran on the cover of the Beanpot program the next year...
...What Carol is doing is giving us the tools to learn how girls develop intellectually--on their own terms," Trudy J. Hammer, associate principal of the school, said in a prepared statement recently...
...many respects, the book represents a maturation of Roth's artistic vision. The self-deprecating Jewish humor provides a comic yet despairing perspective and enables Roth to hammer home his points more powerfully. Yet the extremity of this critical introspective and the vindictive nature of such criticism can make both Zuckerman and Roth seem like the very Jewish martyrs they revel in ridiculing. After all, Zuckerman's backaches are only just so interesting...
...containing compromises on all the essential problems. It would be presented to both governments for their consideration. He had learned from experience that it would be impossible to get formal approval in advance from Washington for all the necessary tradeoffs. But he figured that he might be able to hammer out an agreement with Kvitsinsky on his own. If successful? the resulting accord would be advantageous to the U.S. and would help solve one of the Administration's political problems: the growing perception that