Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe Union of Students began an intensive lobbying effort for university guidelines on harassment. A highly publicized harassment case last spring involving a visiting professor placed further pressure on the University to review its treatment of that issue. In its meeting this year, the Faculty Council has begun to hammer out sexual harassment guidelines for the University, a project which should be completed by spring...
...most of the councillors contacted yesterday did not oppose the mayor's action. After two consecutive marathon sessions trying to hammer out zoning changes for the last large tract of undeveloped land in Cambridge, they said they were looking forward to the unusually restful Monday night...
...victim, or his estate in the case of death, can seek compensation for pain and suffering. Surviving relatives can also sue for the financial support that they have lost. Last month a federal judge in New York approved still another approach. The case grew out of the notorious 1977 hammer killing of Yale Student Bonnie Garland by Richard Herrin, her jealous exboyfriend. The judge upheld a jury award of $30,000 to the parents against Herrin, ruling that he recklessly caused severe emotional distress. Says Bonnie's mother Joan: "Now a criminal can't 'I have...
...Satellite Age of Television has arrived. With it has come a riot of options for the home viewer and a daunting challenge for the three commercial networks. Since the late 1940s, the networks have held a virtual monopoly on the viewer's prime time. Now that hammer lock may be breaking. In the next few years ABC, CBS and NBC will be vying-with one another and with some increasingly confident adversaries-for the lion's share of $16.7 billion and more in annual advertising revenue...
...deliberation had all the hallmarks of shuttle diplomacy. A coterie of four prominent commission members, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, Moynihan, Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York and former Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, huddled repeatedly with Baker, Budget Director David Stockman and other Administration officials to hammer out a package of compromises. Half a block away, at the commission's offices, five conservative members, headed by Republican Senator William Armstrong of Colorado, chairman of the Senate Social Security Subcommittee, held sessions aimed at countering the emerging accord, which, they charged, relied too heavily on new taxes...