Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tanzania's expropriation of Lonrho's assets amounts to no more than a slap on Rowland's wrist. Nyerere's government is talking about a payment of $4 million for the nationalized properties; whatever their worth, they make only a tiny contribution to the company's total revenues ($2.5 billion last year). The Tanzanian President hoped that other African countries would follow his lead in chastising the corporate giant. No such luck. Zambia's Kaunda, whose country's ailing economy might collapse if Rowland abandoned his interests there, made it clear that...
Richard Schickel's review of Sylvester Stallone's "F.I.S.T." needed a qualifying phrase, or else it was an unnecessary slap at American labor. Schickel said the film did not offer a "historical insight into how the American labor movement so quickly deteriorated into self-serving materialism...
...another slap in the face of Quad residents--it's typical of what the administration does to us." Robert Weinstein '80, a North House resident said yesterday. "We'll probably never get the athletic facility on Observatory Hill and anyway the plan for it does not include a pool," he added...
...slap in the face," one member of the Front said after reading the Corporation's 13-page report...
...group decided to slap Harvard back, sponsoring a torchlight march on Thursday night that 3500 people joined...