Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economics award for his work in econometrics: "Haavelmo had a tremendous influence on me and on many other young econometricians in the 1940s." Concurred Robert Solow of the Massachusetts $ Institute of Technology, the 1987 laureate: "It's like giving the Nobel Prize for Physics to Thomas Edison. You slap your forehead and wonder why they didn't do it sooner...
THIS stance by the administration--aside from denying students of their Constitutional freedom of speech--is especially repugnant because of its hypocrisy. Just two weeks ago final clubs got away with distributing punch cards under dorm-room doors just as they do every fall, without so much as a slap on the wrist...
...Jackie Hymans did slap the ball into the Harvard goal with eight seconds remaining in the game, but the score didn't count because she was offside by five feet...
...program and instituted the first supersaver fares. To cut labor costs, Crandall introduced a two-tier wage system under which younger hires were paid less than veteran workers. "Crandall won't give up easily," says an industry hand. "He sees American as his company. Trump's bid is a slap in his face...
...Oslo finally named him the winner of the $445,000 cash award last week, the question was not "Why him?" but "Why now?" Surely the choice of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India since he fled Chinese occupation forces in 1959, was meant as a slap at Beijing: a symbol of international condemnation of the Chinese government for its crackdown on the students' democracy movement in Tiananmen Square last June and imposition of martial law in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, following anti-Chinese riots last March...