Word: slugfest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small group of trustees headed by Industrialist Max Palevsky, who, along with Eli Broad, put up the initial seed money for the museum -- $1 million each, spread over four years. Palevsky wanted a plain hangar of a building, as little ) "architecture" as possible. But after a two-day slugfest of a meeting, the board voted 17-3 for Isozaki, at which Palevsky resigned in a huff and sued for half his money back. But by then other key grants were in line. The "major breakthrough," according to Director Richard Koshalek, was getting Security Pacific Banker Carl Hartnack on the MOCA...
...longer. Harry, 66, and Erica, 53, are now divorced and locked in a legal slugfest in front of God and everybody: specifically, on the gritty stage of the State Circuit Court in Milwaukee. Erica and another De Rance director charge that Harry has pushed the foundation toward financial ruin by misspending close to $150 million in barely three years. They want the court to remove him as a director-trustee and take away his control of its funds. Harry insists their suit, now in its fifth week, is "a simple power grab...
...result was an 8-4 B.C. win in a slugfest which left the Crimson batsmen at 10-7 overall, and 6-1 in the Greater Boston League...
...they say, is to convince the President, who seemed to be leaning toward Weinberger's position, that the Pentagon demands are clearly beyond what is required for the nation's military security. Before the President takes his budget battle to Congress, he must referee the one-sided slugfest between his favorite Cabinet member and the rest of his team. -By EdMagnuson...
Dirty politics are by no means new to North Carolina. In 1950, voters were treated to a rough-and-tumble slugfest between Willis Smith and Frank Porter Graham. Smith, the Republican candidate, doctored photographs to show Graham's wife purportedly dancing with a black man. Red-baiting was rampant. And a young man named Jesse Helms, it is alleged, was intimately involved in Smith's negative propoganda campaign...