Word: handiwork
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...protectionism had a strong if superficial political appeal: by election eve, F.D.R. had backed down, assuring voters that he understood the need for tariffs. Protectionist politicking, however, could not save the Republicans in 1932. Smoot and Hawley joined Hoover in defeat. The Democrats dismantled the G.O.P.'s legislative handiwork with caution, using reciprocal trade agreements rather than across-the-board tariff reductions. The Smoot-Hawley approach was discredited. Sam Rayburn, House Democratic Speaker from 1940 until 1961, insisted that any party member who wanted to serve on the Ways and Means Committee had to support reciprocity, not protectionism...
...Smith's handiwork can already be seen throughout the corporation. Bent on beating the Japanese, he startled Detroit by deciding first to join them. In addition to importing autos from Japanese manufacturers, Smith has taken the unprecedented step of creating a joint venture with Toyota to build a small car in California. He further shocked the unwary by establishing a separate company to produce the subcompact Saturn, which will bear GM's first new nameplate since the Pontiac was introduced in 1926. Saturns will start rolling off the assembly line in two years...
...will lay off during the summer and fall, while Congress works its unpredictable way with the plan. By September, at the earliest, crucial committee votes may be at hand, and the President will return to center stage. If he does not like what Congress is doing to his handiwork, he will let the nation know...
...much is left to the imagination, into a sumptuous movie that includes fully staged operas, grand palaces and hundreds of beautifully costumed extras. For five months the two men worked in virtual isolation in Forman's Connecticut home. At first, Shaffer found disconcerting the process of dismantling his original handiwork. Finally, he says, "I decided it was better to make a good film honoring cinematic laws rather than to make a bad one by retaining my favorite bits...
...Beyond that, we can only keep trying." Reagan's first try was to send George Bush to the Chernenko funeral; then he shaped the personal letter to Gorbachev that the Vice President would carry. The responses from Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko to such private entreaties had read like the handiwork of a committee, and not a very skilled committee at that. Reagan rather thinks he will get a personal, and perhaps mildly revealing, answer this time. Prime Minister Thatcher did in correspondence following Gorbachev's visit to Britain...