Word: leash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money would be better spent to build the company. In addition, AMR's board of directors can be removed by a simple majority vote of shareholders. Because Trump gave the company only until Oct. 20 to respond to his offer, he "has got them on a very short leash," says Owen Dowd, a senior vice president at the Wall Street firm of Oppenheimer & Co. "If he can succeed in removing the board, then he's won the game...
...University by some twisted strain of logic must allow HRE to manage Memorial Hall, then it should at least keep the corporation on a tight leash...
...going somewhere else.' Those acute, extreme forms of illness almost force you to divide yourself between the suffering animal and the human being who has to moderate the suffering with intelligence and stoicism. And, if not kill it off, at least control it, put the dog on the leash...
...cheap celebrity perfume. Act I: See Tom strut as a Manhattan bartender for whom mixing drinks becomes a form of performance art, a quick route to saloon celebrity. Act II: See Tom slink, as he dumps a young woman of sweet substance (Elisabeth Shue) for life on a leash held by a rich bitch (Lisa Banes). Act III: See Tom furrow his boyish brow in a moment of reflection and win the girl of his revised dreams. Sure, fine, why not? Love with the proper heiress propelled many an affable screwball plot in the '30s, when stars made...
...were allowed a whiff of free air in 1962 when the literary journal Novy Mir published Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novella of Stalin's prison camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. But Arbat is of a different order: it is not only indicative of Mikhail Gorbachev's leash-loosening policies but also an official seal of disapproval on the past. Now every literate Soviet citizen can get a popularized characterization of Stalin as he broods about the brutal nature of power and dreams of rebuilding Moscow as a monument to his reign...