Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been pushing TIP through nearly eight years of debate in obscure economic journals. His basic idea, elaborated in cooperation with University of Pennsylvania Economist Sidney Weintraub, is to set a guideline for wage and benefit increases-about 5% a year in Wallich's latest version-and slap a penalty tax on any company that raised pay as much as 1% more. In his view, that would force employers to hold down wages, and prices would automatically follow...
John Skow, you say that Dick Yates' new novel A Good School [Aug. 21] is first-rate, acute and impeccable and then slap him down somewhat scornfully at the end. You say his work comes close to fear, whatever that's supposed to say as a literary evaluation. I would have thought you'd applaud that cautionary nerve in Yates when we have so many books so bravely fearless and forgotten. Fear is a quality to be admired in a writer of Yates' integrity. If he has fear, how can the rest of us afford...
...Slap quotas or tariffs on foreign oil to reduce imports. Carter can do this by executive order, and he said last week that he "would not hesitate" to use this power...
...some ways the trial of Shcharansky could be seen as a personal affront to Carter, since the President had publicly denied the Soviet charge that Shcharansky was a CIA agent. Certainly the timing of the trial, in the week of the SALT meeting, was a slap in the face for the Administration. But the U.S. moved cautiously in choosing the means to protest (and there were even weekend rumors that it was negotiating some kind of exchange for Shcharansky). When the trial date was announced, the White House ostentatiously canceled trips to the U.S.S.R. by two U.S. delegations. Washington later...
...gonna be goin' for it. You know it and he knows it. There's two down and they ain't gonna send Morgan home from third on a walk. One sharp pitch and they'll go home 'til next spring. Go get 'em." Another slap on the back and Zimmer and Fisk silently turned their backs and departed...