Word: heavyhandedness
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If the Republicans are applying leverage, the Democrats have also been pretty heavyhanded. A D.N.C. memo turned up by the Chicago Sun Times offers donors of $100,000 a chance to eat and speak with the President and Vice President as well as "participate in foreign trade missions." So far...
Aaron was still a fearsome, albeit fading, slugger when he surpassed Ruth in 1974. In contrast, baseball purists should cringe at the way Pete Rose, his skills long vanished, was lionized for his Captain Ahab-like quest to break Ty Cobb's record for career base hits. Collision at Home...
THIS must be a joke. Harvard is considering divesting its stock holdings in RJR-Nabisco and Philip Morris because promotional techniques in third world countries are often heavyhanded, and the companies do not place warning labels on cigarette packs there.
Does this mean Harvard will finally divest from South Africa on the grounds that the promotional techniques of apartheid are often heavyhanded, and the birth certificates of Blacks there are not equipped with warning labels?
The University wrote to both RJR-Nabisco and Philip Morris in July asking them to respond to charges that promotional techniques in Latin American, African and Asian nations are often heavyhanded. Harvard also asked the companies to explain why they do not place warning labels on cigarette packs, as is...