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Dark Suit I: "Well, Phil, that merger sounds just great. We'll hammer out the details after our squash game, whaddaya...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...bipartisan package. As the budget hearings unfold, Michel may attempt to stage "test votes" to find out just where the members stand, both for his own benefit and that of Administration strategists. In the Senate, the Democrats have no game plan yet, but their leaders intend eventually to hammer out an alternative. "We want to save the country," said Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California, "but we don't want to save Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bubbles in the Red Ink | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...cases for corroboration and in homicides, where there may be no eyewitnesses. One danger, though: it can become so complicated that the jury gets lost. That is often the only hope for defense attorneys, who can rarely afford to hire opposing experts. In cross-examination and final arguments, they hammer away at the witness's credentials or the inability to pin the crime on the defendant conclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Mr. Wizard Comes to Court | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Most of the ads have focused on an issue King will likely hammer away at over the next seven months: taxes. The messages doggedly blame Dukakis for a 7.5 percent rise in income taxes during his administration, labelling it "the Dukakis surtax...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Dukakis, King Show Strategies in Ads | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...only thought I would die eventually, because the next day the boy who used the hammer on me was himself found dead. After the body was discovered, the boatmaster pulled it out of the hold. Then he cut up the body. Everyone was issued a piece of meat about two fingers wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam: We Go Together in One Boat | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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