Word: nail
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...surrender." But political pros wonder how long the President, whose approval ratings have dropped more than 20 points since August, will put his political prestige on the line by embracing a problem of such daunting complexity and intractability. In the 1992 presidential election, Democrats are expected to try to nail Bush, fairly or not, as the man who "lost" the war on drugs...
...implicated in the savings and loan debacle? The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is investigating charges of agency involvement in the scandal, will soon produce some answers. Nobody has managed to nail down a charge, aired in a series of articles in the Houston Post, that the CIA used fraudulently obtained S&L money to fund some of its covert operations, including support for the now defunct Nicaraguan contra rebels. But there is more evidence for a second Post allegation: that a Justice Department prosecutor investigating a bank failure in 1985 was warned off by FBI agents because...
...that time, the novel's narrator, Patrick Bateman, is in full graphic babble about his adventures as a serial killer. With knife and pistol, he dispatches pets, children, high-fashion colleagues and ragged beggars. These are only warm-ups for what the M.B.A. monster does to women with nail gun, power drill, chain saw and, in a scene that should cause the loudest uproar, a hungry rodent. Those who are interested in the gobbets can exercise their rights as free American consumers early next year -- that is if they are still interested after reading one of the tamer examples...
Through two quarters, however, this was very much a game. MIT, fresh off the heels of Wednesday's nail-biting 17-16 victory over Boston College, jumped on the scoreboard first with a goal less than two minutes into the match. Midway through the quarter, the Engineers held a 2-1 advantage, and were it not for some missed MIT scoring opportunites, it could have been more...
...White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said two weeks ago. But many economists contend that the slump actually began last summer. "The economy was headed toward a recession before Iraq invaded Kuwait," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the consulting firm Boston Company Economic Advisors. "The invasion was just the nail in the coffin." Richard Hoey, chief U.S. economist for the British investment firm Barclays de Zoete Wedd, concurs: "Only the severity of the recession is uncertain...