Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time being, Ivan will just have to incarcerate himself at his $10 million estate and continue to play with an inordinate sum of money. Unfortunately, the $100 million slap on the wrist will not prevent him from playing squash. At best his concentration could be broken by the pending lawsuits and an outbreak of public fury...
...impatiently past roller skaters clad in little more than G-strings, and camera-laden tourists gawk at punk couples in Dracula makeup and matching spiky hairdos. So fast is the tempo that when a quarrel erupted recently between two West Berliners, the story goes, one snapped at the other, "Slap yourself for me. I don't have time." At night the city grows more manic still, with revelers jamming its cabarets, dance halls and 23-hour-a-day pubs...
...number of currency forms, and have them stamped every time you change money, take a trip, stay in a hotel, or go to the bathroom. If your form says you only have 100 kyats but you come to the hotel with 500, they know you've been playing dirty, slap your wrists and send you back to "Go," do not collect...
...vote was partly a slap at outgoing President Belisario Betancur Cuartas, 63, who under Colombian law could not seek re-election. Since Betancur took office in 1982, Colombia has continued to dominate a worldwide cocaine trade that has ballooned from $5 billion four years ago to $8 billion today. Betancur also had limited success in halting terrorist conflicts, which have claimed more than 2,000 lives since 1983. Around 100 hostages died last November when the army stormed the Bogota Palace of Justice after it was seized by guerrillas. Among the dead: eleven Justices of Colombia's 24-member Supreme...
...decided that the U.S. should impose tariffs on imports of Canadian red cedar shakes and shingles because they were damaging American producers of those products. Under U.S. trade law, the White House had until last Saturday to act on the ITC recommendation, and the President chose to slap a 35% tariff on the Canadian shakes and shingles. The levy will be phased out over five years...