Word: jugulars
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...putting teeth into Title IX, these provisions have gone for the jugular of athletic discrimination and may well have sealed its demise...
...Women and Wallace" goes for the theatrical jugular immediately. Minutes into the play we are led into a warm domestic scene: Wallace's mother (Sarah Matthay) calmly prepares a peanut butter and banana sandwich for little Wallace. After he excitedly snatches the lunch and trots off to the second grade, Wallace's mother jots a note and then slits her throat. As the play progresses, it becomes clear that this is the defining moment of Wallace's life. We know early on why his relationships with women will be screwed up and inevitably end in disaster...
...spent $14 million on antismoking ads. Since 1994, cigarette sales to teens in the state have dropped some 40%. Said Dr. Lonnie Bristow, president of the American Medical Association: "If you hamper their ability to market effectively to children, you've really put your hand on [the tobacco companies'] jugular...
...donation from a gay group. "He pounded and pounded at that, and it took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts to soften his image in the past, his latest round of speeches include inspirational stories about his wife Wendy, a third-generation Korean American, who served as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
...limit on foreign ownership of a U.S. broadcast station. (Fox is owned by Murdoch's News Corp., an Australian company, but Fox claims it is effectively controlled by Murdoch himself, who is an American citizen.) Just how high the stakes are in the battle was made clear by the jugular quality of Murdoch's response. Denying that his network violates the foreign-ownership rules, he fired back with charges that General Electric, NBC's corporate parent, should be stripped of its station licenses, alleging "a pattern of illegal activity." "Two can play at this game," said Murdoch. "If they want...