Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears that only those who say what the union wants to hear will be allowed a voice. Staff members who voted against the union in May did so because they were convinced that a union was not the answer. NLRB certification of HUCTW has been a difficult pill to swallow but, despite this disappointment, many of the "No" voters have expressed a willingness to become involved in the process of creating a strong and worthwhile union, one which will accomplish good things for all who are to be represented...
...buyout aroused anxieties even in the investment community, where some executives feared that the Johnson-initiated scramble would swallow up too much of the available money for deals and, moreover, give mergers and LBOs a bad name. "This is the sort of excess that investment bankers have worried about for years," said economist Robert Reich of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, "because it so clearly exposes the greed and rapaciousness of so many of these takeovers." Martin Weinstein, managing director of Kubera, a Wall Street arbitrage firm, concurred: "Do I sense fear? Yes. At some point there...
...could find their travel costs rising roughly 15% to 20%. "Now I'll really get hurt if someone calls on Tuesday and says, 'We have to have you in New York on Friday,' " says Gregory Boyd, a California venture capitalist. His solution: buy partially refundable tickets in advance and swallow the penalty if he cancels. "Instead of flying to New York for $1,200, I'll book a week in advance -- $600 round trip -- and take the 25% penalty. Then, even if I don't go, I'm better...
...understanding of defense issues. While hardly a hawk. Bradley avoids the image of knee-jerk anti-militarism that afflicted Dukakis. After twelve years of Republicans in the White House, fielding a candidate whose primary flaw is one vote for Contra aid should not be too bitter a pill to swallow to elect a Democratic President...
While less suspenseful, the next game was even harder to swallow. In itself, Hershiser's 6-0 shutout was unsurprising. After topping off his Cy Young season with 59 scoreless innings -- one more than Don Drysdale's eternal streak -- he had blanked the blankety-blank Mets in the playoffs. But against Oakland, the hits that Hershiser allowed weren't as astonishing as those he accumulated: three of them. No Series pitcher had given as good as he got since the Yankees' Don Larsen went 0-for-2 in 1956. Orel yielded three singles but took two doubles and a single...