Word: hammerlock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company with the longest experience and the greatest mastery of distributing and marketing computers, is gradually developing a hammerlock on the personal computer segment of the market. The IBM PC, introduced in August 1981, has grabbed 26% of sales, dislodging Apple from the top position. Were it not for the fact that IBM cannot produce machines fast enough to keep up with demand, the company might be even further ahead of its competition...
Reagan, who long dismissed deficits as a kind of passing annoyance, formally recognized the danger last week. Said he: "A high priority must be to get a hammerlock on this monster known as the federal budget." It is too late now to do anything much about fiscal 1983, but White House aides hope to propose a budget lowering the fiscal 1984 deficit to $188 billion. By their figuring, that would be $47 billion less red ink than could be expected if all federal programs were to continue unchanged. (Both numbers were calculated at the end of last week and could...
...brassy heroine, the evocatively named Belle Poitrine (Mary Gordon Murray), a non-lady who is a bona fide tramp, wants to acquire culture, fame, wealth and social acceptance. In 1982, culture is a two-syllable word that has disappeared from most vocabularies, and a bona fide tramp has a hammerlock on fame, wealth and social acceptance, provided she selects the right ghostwriter to indite her saucy memoirs...
...They stomp and batter at the grating, and resist every effort to trailer them to a larger enclosure. Robison must cut off the colts from their mothers for the trip to the adoption distribution center. One young upstart sends him flying against the fence, and it takes his best hammerlock to wrestle him down...