Word: howling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weber asked the group to howl in order to evoke a response from the wolves. One wolf, however, was scared and walked out of the room...
...billion credit line for cleaning up the banks. To prevent such a disaster from happening again, Congress and the Bush Administration fired off a barrage of tough new banking standards. But when federal regulators began enforcing the new rules with an iron fist, many banks and borrowers started to howl. Last year the Bush Administration ordered regulators to ease up, but so far, most bankers remain fearful that any laxity on their part will bring regulatory punishment or even closure. "The weaker banks want to spend more time trying to clean up their balance sheets than making new loans," says...
...Quad Howl" (the suburban version of the River Houses' pre-exam primal scream) can sometimes get out of hand (bandies overtook the roof of Cabot House this year), but I figured this tank wasn't from the National Guard. No, its real purpose was more pressing. The tank was circling unceasingly and shooting grass seed from a huge cannon about 40 feet...
...dispensed with altogether by tapping into Nobel-prizewinner sperm banks, does not mean it should be. Imagine if men decided that motherhood was equally expendable. Sated with their corner offices and home gyms, guys of a certain age could go around paying women to have babies for them. The howl of feminists over such selfish, macho pigs could tie up talk-radio lines for years. Fatherhood may take moments, motherhood nine months, but doing it right takes the lifelong commitment of both parents...
...wrote the earlier poems like Howl in a period when the United States was coming out of a very repressed society...