Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the Square two kids with spiked hair slap each other in the face, playfully. A skinhead behind me taps me on the shoulder...
...Japan, naturally--or groups of countries; bills that would require regular intervention in exchange markets. Many are based on a crude idea of reciprocity: buy more from us or we will buy less from you. Thus a bill drafted by Democrats, but boasting strong Republican support as well, would slap a 25% penalty tariff on anything imported from countries whose sales to the U.S. exceed by 65% or more their purchases from the U.S., unless they start reducing that trade imbalance immediately. In its present form, the bill would raise prices on everything Americans buy from Japan, Taiwan, Korea...
Actually, the magazine is more slap-dash than wham-bang, and the cornucopia has withered under the increasing onslaught of the bacteria of scholarly commitment...
Consumer groups were outraged with the light fine, calling it "a slap on the wrist." Said Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Washington-based Public Citizen Health Research Group: "We believe the company intentionally withheld information from the FDA and there should have been a felony charge. Their top ) executive could have been fined $150,000 and spent 45 years in jail." Last week's action ended the Government's case against Lilly. But the firm cannot put Oraflex behind it since scores of civil suits in the U.S. and Britain must still be resolved...
Wait a minute. Isn't this 1985, a good three years before the next Republican presidential convention? Yes, but some politicians believe that it is never too early to slap a back in pursuit of a dream. So there was George Bush, just back from an eleven-day official trip to Europe, ensconced in a reviewing stand in Bristol, N.H., in the state that just happens to hold the country's first presidential primary. Congressman Jack Kemp skipped the family barbecue in upstate New York to be in Iowa, traditionally the site of the nation's first party caucuses. After...