Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near) the centers of world power but in the underdeveloped and overpopulated Caribbean country of Santo Domingo. There Clay Loomis, a disaffected CIA agent turned soldier of fortune, serves as chief of security to the current dictator. His main job: trying to quell a guerrilla movement led by one RamÓn el Rojo. It is a loosing battle; before long RamÓn starts a Castro-type revolution that spreads through Santo Domingo like Asiatic...
...mistake' came near the end of the first half, just as Harvard had begun to turn around the URI-dominated game. Ram forward Mario Pereira slipped past fullback Bob Carey, took a pass from Dave Names and, in the confusion, lined the first goal past Crimson goalkeeper Fred Herold, who played a great game as usual...
Even so, the lordly fellows in the booths turned away from the platform at will, as usual feeling no need to carry every seconding speech or prayer. They might announce "gavel to gavel" coverage, but they felt free to ram in all those commercials or just to chat on-camera. Television, once the pushy guest in the hall, has taken over. Such a development used to disturb political scientists, who remember how influential was television's 1968 crosscutting between demonstrators outside and an apoplectic Mayor Daley inside. This time television was guilty of only minor attempts at hype...
...OECD'S purposes in drafting the code was to head off a possible effort by the developing countries to ram through the United Nations their own tougher strictures on the multinationals. Nonetheless, the code does perform a useful service as the first major statement by the industrialized nations about how they expect their corporations to behave elsewhere. The code may also inspire some developing countries to enact up-to-date business legislation that would outlaw exploitative business practices-just as they have long been forbidden in the nations where the multinationals were born...
...crowd was not happy with the situation. They began to shout and ram the gates, demanding entrance. Teenaged boys scratched their initials and some dirty words into the new paint on the closed gates. This upset a woman in a powder blue pantsuit so that she began to yell, "Stop defacing the beautiful new stadium! Stop it; do you hear!" Pat Cunningham scurried into the V.I.P. entrance to the ballpark. The woman in the pantsuit began to demand that her husband do something about the vandals, whose activity grew more impassioned. Her husband shrugged his shoulders, and as his jacket...