Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Reagan's motive is genuine, the "spirit of reconciliation," which he is bending over backwards to demonstrate to the Germans, comes as a slap in the face to all those for whom the events of the 1940s were a living hell. While a visit to a German cemetery is itself a fine gesture to those Germans who suffered in the war, combined with Reagan's decision to avoid the concentration camps, the move becomes a highly insulating one. Concentration camp survivors, families of victims, and World War II veterans rightly condemn Reagan for what appears to be an attempt...
...slap in the face It's like saving [to Black students], "Come to our college, even through you're not really qualified,'" Owen said...
...manufacturer. Japanese policies leave just a minuscule 2% of the country's $11.5 billion tobacco market to foreigners. Says Peter Hoult, Reynolds' vice president of marketing: "Some of the government controls are like a land mine. You never know where they'll show up." Not only do the Japanese slap taxes on imported cigarettes to boost some of their prices 40% above Japanese brands, but they have also laid down a phalanx of other barriers. It was not until 1981, for example, that Japan increased the number of outlets that could sell the smokes from a mere...
They are the kind of little signs you might slap together at home a few minutes before a big hockey game to wave between periods...
This movie ought to come adorned with cautionary labels. "Fragile!" "Handle with Care!" "Use No Hooks!" But how do you slap a sticker on a soap bubble? The temptation, then, is simply to let it drift, shimmering and iridescent as it dances on rare currents of wit and nostalgia, and to hope, of course, that it comes to a safe resting place in millions of memories...