Word: handing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy Bathgate's metaphor for his own life is juggling: "It was juggling that had got me where I was...And when I wasn't juggling I was doing sleight of hand...magic was not the point, it was never the point, dexterity was to me the point...
Dukakis is supposed to unveil a new package of ethics policies as soon as he finds a replacement for former Chair of the Ethics Commission Colin Diver. The package is expected to include an ethics hand-book, tighter restrictions on college trust funds and codes of conduct for all state agencies, The Boston Globe reported Sunday...
...five syllables in Washington these days are "bipartisanship." That tender word is part of the vocabulary of the honeymoon between a new Congress and a new Administration, especially when the pillow talk turns to foreign policy. It is meant to conjure up the happy image of Republicans and Democrats hand in hand at the water's edge. Actually, the word is doubly misleading, both in its evocation of the distant past and in its implications for the near future...
...widespread early complaint was that Administration officials, notably Budget Director Richard Darman, were using sleight of hand to downplay the bailout's true cost. Darman originally seemed to say that the cost to taxpayers would total about $40 billion in the first decade, but that number in fact described only how much the plan would aggravate budget deficits. The actual spending from general revenues would be closer to $60 billion. But purely from an accounting standpoint, its impact will be offset by $20 billion in increased insurance-premium fees to be collected from the banking industry -- even though the funds...
Although the latter is nicer than the former, both are equally willing to take your money in blackjack, roulette, baccarat and the slot machines. Be careful that you don't have too many of the complimentary drinks at the tables (ranging from $2 to $1000 minimum each hand), or else you won't have enough money to leave...