Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another in sign language, their faces and bodies contorted with frantic energy as they sought to convey the emotional content of their message. They were students from Washington's Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf. Their message, in the words of Student Rebekah Hammer: "Prejudice is believing that hearing people have to take care of deaf people...
GORE brings his Congressional experience and level-headed pragmatism to domestic issues as well. With the departure of Gov. Bruce Babbitt from the race, Gore is now the only candidate in either party with a credible budget plan, one that seeks to hammer out a new consensus on fiscal policy. Unlike Reagan, who scuttled budget talks by refusing to raise taxes or cut defense expenditures, Gore would put almost everything on the table. That's not to say, however, that Gore wouldn't have his own list of priorities: he'll cut spending where it doesn't endanger national security...
...work. "What should I do?" Stankard asked his wife Pat. Her reply: Wait for two weeks after the birth of their fourth child. Then do it. The association was to last five years, and Palley was a demanding master: Stankard smashed his first week's production with a hammer because Palley told him it was not good enough...
...Chernenko's funeral in 1985, Gorbachev encountered Armand Hammer, the American businessman who has been trading with the Soviets since Lenin's day, and denounced Ronald Reagan to him as a man who wanted war. He mellowed after meeting the U.S. President later that year at their first summit in Geneva, and today speaks respectfully of Reagan. Still, when Hammer called at the Kremlin in 1986, Gorbachev told him, "Your President couldn't make peace if he wanted to. He's a prisoner of the military-industrial complex," which in Gorbachev's mind seems to be both all powerful...
Something decidedly odd is going on at the old mansion. The crackle of splintering wood emanates from the broken windows. A bathroom sink of heroic proportions has been plunked down on the overgrown lawn, and a man is chipping at a graffiti-painted wall with hammer and chisel. "Alllll right! " he says with a smile. "This stone is so wet it's going to come right off with a jackhammer...