Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holds assets of $300 million in rubber plantations and palm-oil industries on the Malay peninsula, yet it keeps its headquarters in Singapore and is registered in London. For years it had a reputation for mistreating and underpaying its workers, who bitterly dubbed the firm "Swine Bobby" (slang for pig feed) or "Slime Darby...
...heroine of the story, masturbating as she falls asleep. In the course of the next 185 pages, she and Rocco, her 17-year-old boy friend, sample a farrago of sex, including sodomy and homosexual affairs. But sex is only one of the reasons that the novel Winged Pig* has become a sensational bestseller in Italy...
...instead for turning "our thoughts to the realities of regulation and the changes that are needed." Complete deregulation, he insists, would lead to cutthroat price competition and protect neither the airlines nor the passengers. Says Adams: "You don't need to burn the house down to roast a pig...
...some respects, the new police mood seems anomalous. It has been years since they heard the radical chants of "Pig!" Those insults-combined with the long list of Warren Court rulings in favor of criminal defendants-marked a nadir for police morale. Since then, however, the eight-year Republican Administration has pumped $5 billion through the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, much of it to improve local police departments. Under Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court has decidedly tilted back toward the prosecution side. By many measures, the policeman's lot today would seem to be a happier...
...other reason for this recovery lies in Epstein's Petruchio. The sheer power of his voice manages to contain all of the potentially explosive elements in the play. Epstein, who appears to know how every line of his part has ever been read, is as challenging, excited, scheming, pig-headed, ironic, reflective and ultimately loving as he demands his Kate...