Word: hammerism
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What she said was what they knew: if the broken ocean food chain were to mend itself, New England fishermen would have to hammer out fairer catch limits, along with rules for gear type and boat size and number. If they couldn't handle this, Gloucester might be finished, except as a picturesque site for second-home condos...
...Faculty meetings--and the smaller, bi-monthly gatherings of the 18-member Faculty Council--the Faculty helps the administration hammer out policies such as Core reform and changes in foreign language requirements...
...prospective parents have tried no end of ingenious ways to do it. In ancient Greece, men would lie on their right side during sex to guarantee a boy; in 18th century France they would tie off their left testicle for the same result. Medieval Germans preferred to put a hammer under the bed to produce a boy, while their Danish cousins placed scissors there to make a girl. None of it worked, of course, and despite impressive advances in other aspects of reproductive science, modern medicine hasn't managed to do much better...
...grand jury's legitimacy by testifying--though appeals could take months if the Supreme Court chose to hear the case. The harder prediction was political. Would the public blame Clinton for dragging out a subpoena fight now that he's admitted sex and lies, or Starr for continuing to hammer away on more Monica minutiae...
...more than simple competitive spirit that caused me to ridicule the new tennis racquets our friends wielded when they took to the court against us. "Hammer system?" I snickered, inspecting Goldberg's Wilson racquet as if it were poultry. "What is this '6.2' nonsense?" I said, mistaking the racquet's flexibility rating for a version number. "Do you get free software updates?" Needless to say, the Goldbergs proceeded to beat us like cheap rugs. New technology--combined with an unseemly willingness on their part to run for the ball--left us in the dust. Team Quittner needed an upgrade...