Word: hammering
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...this seems confusing at first blush, consider a few preliminary facts: Since 1931, Britain has not exercised any influence in Canada beyond, well, stirring the loyalists with a Royal Wedding or two. And since 1931, Canadian governments have tried unsuccessfully to hammer out an indigenous constitution acceptable both to the federal branch and the provincial branch. Trudeau, a former lawyer who has held power with the federal Liberals for all but a few months in the past 14 years, has long dreamed of enshrining a civil Bill of rights together with a constitution the country can call...
...game last November, but we must ask why anyone was allowed inside when there was even a chance that the Stadium might tumble down. Reardon inspires little confidence when he speaks of parts of the structure that "are so corroded that you can hit the steel beams with a hammer and it crumbles." If things have reached such a state, perhaps the 78-year-old stadium should be closed--at least temporarily--to make sure its occupants are safe...
...after day, the rhetoric grew shriller. TASS, the Soviet news agency, fired barrages against the Solidarity union federation, accusing its leaders of spreading "dirty and slanderous" anti-Soviet propaganda. As part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs...
...There are parts where it's so corroded that you can hit the steel beams with a hammer and it crumbles," John P. Reardon '60, director of Athletics, said Thursday. He also questioned the weakening stadium's ability to hold large crowds, saying it "was really packed last year for the Yale Game, and I was glad when it was over that everyone was safe...
...What shall be the deciding factor, religious law or secular law?" asked the Labor Party's Yaakov Tzur in the Knesset, raising the larger question before the Begin government. Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer, an NRP leader who is not opposed to the Old City excavation, equivocated in his reply, reflecting the government's dilemma. "We must follow the law of the state," he said, "keeping in mind the respect we must have for the halacha [religious...