Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President not simply disavow his brother's connection with Libya? 3) At a time when he knew that Billy's work for Libya was under investigation by the Justice Department, why did he use Billy as a back-channel route to try to get Libya to lean on Iran to free the American hostages held in Tehran...
...body were exploding and everything inside were trying to get out, including my brain." Two and a half years with a shrink put his cerebrum where it belonged, and even when Jeannie folded, he kept busy with TV pilots and movies. In the lean years that followed he still earned more than $150,000, enough, as his mother says, to allow him to be "a grand pasha" around the house...
Later that month, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President's National Security Adviser, committed one of the more ill considered acts in the whole affair. He asked Billy to use his friendship with the Libyans to get Gaddafi to lean harder on Khomeini to free the hostages. After talking to Brzezinski, Billy called on Ali Houderi, a recently acquired friend who happened to be Libya's chargé d'affaires in Washington. Billy set up a meeting on Nov. 27 between Houderi and Brzezinski and went along to the White House to make the introduction...
...rain for four hours to watch someone throw a hammer. It doesn't matter to them where they are. They could be watching in the wastes of the Gobi Desert as long as someone grunts and there's a hammer in the air so everyone can lean slightly forward out of their seats and watch the thing land with a thump...
...attorneys of Bethlehem Steel, the nation's second largest steelmaker (1979 sales: $7.1 billion) and a major ship repairer. They came on a painfully embarrassing mission. On behalf of their company, they entered a guilty plea to an eleven-page statement of criminal offenses. The charges: during the lean years of tanker building and repair that followed the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Bethlehem engaged in a complex conspiracy that resulted in the payment of bribes of at least $400,000 to shipowners and agents in return for having them repair their ships in Bethlehem's yards. Bethlehem...