Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evade prompt payment of taxes," he said. That move alone would increase revenues by $3 billion in fiscal 1981, but much of the increase would not really be new money, merely cash that the Government would collect more speedily than now planned. Far more important, the President will slap a $4.62 per bbl. fee on imported oil, a move that he can take without any new legislative authority. Motorists will pay an extra 100 per gal. for gasoline at the pump, probably beginning in May. The President presented this mostly as a conservation measure to prompt Americans to reduce their...
...humiliating defeat for Banisadr and his moderate colleagues; only a few days earlier Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh had all but maneuvered the militants into turning over their hostages to the ruling Revolutionary Council as a necessary first step in arranging for their release. The decision was also a slap in the face of the U.N. commissioners, who had overstayed their visit to Tehran in the hope of seeing the hostages. They returned to New York City last week, their mission officially "suspended." In Washington, frustrated officials of the Carter Administration were not only wondering what to do next, but worried...
...while the Knights had the opportunities the rest of the way. Dartmouth came up with the goals. At 3:27, Tom Croft boomed a slap shot into the twines from the left point, and moments later Dennis Murphy tallied when he tipped Bill Flanigan's wrist shot home to narrow the deficit...
They'd awe me with stretches of playoff-caliber play, like the first period against B.C. at the Beanpot, or the second period at Dartmouth. And then they'd sneer, and throw me an impotent power-play or lackluster loss to Colgate crushing my hopes and expectations like a slap in the face on a first date...
...women's basketball team closed out its 1979-80 season with a slap-dash, "let's get to the champagne" 68-65 victory over the University of Connecticut last night...