Word: punch
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...referred the case to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. Last week U.S. Attorney Edward Dennis Jr. announced that a federal grand jury in Philadelphia had returned an indictment against G.E. for allegedly defrauding the Air Force of more than $800,000. In a swift and stiff follow-up punch, the Pentagon declared that it was temporarily barring G.E. from any new military contracts. As if that were not enough, the Pentagon disclosed that it was taking another "exceptional action" against the company, demanding that it voluntarily return what the Defense Department considers excess profits collected on contracts for Navy...
...debt in the post-Reagan era will take at least $200 billion a year. Moreover, all ever increasing share of this money will go to foreign creditors who are very unlikely to invest it in our economy Today's college students may be hit with a two fisted punch-paying taxes to pay interest abroad and fewer jobs and lead investment at home. If the high interest rates do not cut investment at home, the interest paid abroad will. In the meantime, while Reagan was running up deficits, investment in productives resources will have been handicapped by high interest rates...
...only the opening round in what seems likely to be a yearlong battle over the budget, but Ronald Reagan threw his hardest knockdown punch. The President called reporters and cameramen into the Oval Office to witness his veto of a bill that would have extended about $2 billion in additional federal loan guarantees to debt-burdened farmers. Said Reagan: "Someone must stand up to those who say, 'Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.' " Moreover, he pledged, "I will veto again and again until spending...
Colgate is young, inexperienced and without much scoring punch. Three Red Raiders posted respectable scoring numbers, but the attack does not go much deeper than that...
With 15 goals and 16 assists, as well as some of the sharpest passing skills on the squad, Ward added a considerable punch to the offense. "There's no way we won't miss Liz Ward," Dooley said...