Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the regular diet of sex, scandal and sensationalism has resulted in parliamentary dyspepsia and growing public outrage. With the threat of government press curbs looming, 20 of the country's leading newspapers last week signed a broad code of ethics, which includes the hiring of mediators, ostensibly to slap down editors and reporters who place exploitation before fairness...
...less than subliminal message is that Japan Inc. is buying up America, a point underscored by the ubiquity of headlines portraying Japan -- as distinguished from Japanese individuals or companies -- snapping up American treasures. Similar coverage greeted OPEC in the 1970s, when Arab oil sheiks seemed ready to slap down their petrodollars and pick up America piece by piece. Yet even the most alarmist press scenarios of that era did not envision oil merchants daring to seize the home of the nation's Christmas tree...
Just over a minute later, Providence scored again as freshman forward Michelle Johansson batted a high slap shot by defender Kelly O'Leary down into the net. With the bizarre goal, the game was quickly becoming a rout...
However, Harvard's hopes of turning the game around were quickly dashed less than a minute later, when Beagan slightly deflected a slap shot by Friar defender Lisa Paccione into the Crimson...
...have this little ritual before each game," Landau says. "We like to slap our sticks together and give each other high fives. It motivates us for the game...