Word: helming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last July to 36.8%. During the Hesse campaign, the S.P.D. plastered Free Democratic posters with red stickers denouncing their "Betrayal in Bonn." In recent speeches, Schmidt has heaped scorn on the Free Democrats, calling Genscher a Weinpanscher (someone who sells wine diluted with water). As he took the helm of a riverboat on the Rhine last week, Schmidt implied that he was glad to be rid of the Free Democrats. "With the F.D.P. you can count on one thing: their lack of character," he declared. "If they were stupid but still loyal, that would be worse for us, but they...
...known to come to the aid of Schmidt when the Chancellor was under attack in the Bundestag from leftists in his own party. seem its drawbacks, Kohl's middle-of-the-road politicking does seem to go down well with the German electorate. Since he took the C.D.U. helm, party membership has more than doubled...
...victories gave Crimson Coach Frank Haggerty his first wins since taking over the helm from recently retired Bill McCurdy. The thinclads visit Brown Friday...
...Pepperell is sponsored by the textile-manufacturing company, has taken a leave from his job as chief of laboratory testing at Hunter Marine of Alachua, Fla. Tom Lindholm, 57, of Hidden Hills, Calif., has left his law practice in the hands of his partner and son to take the helm of his 41-ft. sloop Driftwood. Dan Byrne, 53, of Santa Monica, Calif., is relying on his wife Patricia to provide shore support; she intends to meet him and his 40-ft. Fantasy in every port...
...offer was a fittingly dramatic move for Hammer, still an irrepressible empire builder at age 84. With Hammer at the helm, Occidental has grown in 25 years from a small, nearly bankrupt firm to an energy colossus with annual revenues of more than $14 billion. Much of the company's oil, however, comes from such politically unstable parts of the world as North Africa and South America. The firm has been anxious to increase its domestic holdings, yet it found few opportunities for obtaining energy property in the U.S. Hammer told TIME: "If you want elephants, you go where...