Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's labor force for the transition to high-technology industries. After visiting the Eire Pub "men's bar" in the Dorchester section of Boston (he took just one sip of his Ballantine ale) and discussing business problems with a group of executives, he uncorked a jaw-dropper, suggesting that abolishing corporate taxes might be a good idea. "When are we going to have the courage to point out that in our tax structure the corporate tax is very hard to justify?" he asked. Others have suggested before that taxing both business profits and the dividends paid...
...their lives necessarily riveting. None of them is intended primarily as a tragic figure, despite personal hardships, and Naylor occasionally errs too far towards the nonchalant in making that point clear: "She had almost learned to cope with his peculiar ways. A pot of burnt rice meant a fractured jaw or a wet bathroom floor a loose tooth." Each woman's story opens not with birth, or adolescence, or marriage, but with the moment that tragedy appears in her life, foreshadowing even greater misery...
...face had been turning purpler and purpler, and before I had time to ask the man about his new techniques Lenny had whipped out his tire chain and started swinging it his jaw tightening. "My dad--my dad told me about people like...
Friends drop by the restaurant table to jaw comfortably about cars (Friend: "You could put a taller gear in the rear...
Brezhnev had been plagued by illness since 1974. He suffered from heart disease. The list of maladies he was suspected of having included leukemia, cancer of the jaw, gout, emphysema and circulatory ailments. Several times during the past eight years, rumors of his death had swept through Western capitals after a faltering appearance or an unexpected absence from a meeting demanded by protocol. But in recent months he kept to a rigorous schedule of events. He even braved freezing temperatures for two hours early last week to review a Red Square parade. Thus the official announcement of his death three...