Word: slugging
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...Slug Fest...
...tough, slug-it-out match Friday night. Canada bested by a 3-1 margin the only team that can safely be called a real disappointment during the preliminaries here...
...compassion whatsoever for the most helpless among us-the unborn." (Applause.) The punchy rhetoric, the actor's timing, the roar of the crowd, all could mean only one thing: the Gipper was back on the campaign trail. During the long primary season, Ronald Reagan had let the Democrats slug it out among themselves...
...happened since June, 1982 exemplifies the new interventionist brand of money management at Harvard. HMC had shifted heavily into stocks (at one point, almost 80 percent of the endowment was in stocks). But last December, accurately sensing an imminent tumble in the market, the company took a $300 million slug out of equities and put it into bonds, and rearranged stock holdings to include more health care and small technology companies. These two industries proved to be the only sectors rising at all in a sleepy market...
...with colored crayons on a set of maps in the seclusion of his tent, who figured out the solution that was to become known as Operation Cobra. "I said I didn't want to stand up and slug, but ... at one time we were going to have to," Bradley told an aide. "Afterward we can make the breakthrough and run deep...