Word: synonyms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, many U.S. farmers, who also rely on Government income supports, favor eliminating farm subsidies -- if foreign farmers follow suit. Reason: they believe U.S. agricultural productivity would give them an edge if competition were fair. Searching for a compromise, Yeutter at one point consulted a thesaurus for a synonym of the word eliminate. Replied E.C. Vice President Frans Andriessen: "I'm interested in substance, not words...
...been kind to the Philistines. Exemplified by such figures as the hulking Goliath and the treacherous Delilah, they are depicted in the Bible as thieves and warmongering aliens. The ancient Egyptians branded them pirates and marauders. Since the 17th century, their name has been used as a synonym for uncultured, anti-intellectual boorishness...
During spring training, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth quietly tried to talk to Martin about his drinking. But alcohol and baseball have always had a charmed association. Beer is practically a synonym for the sport. Hockey scrapes Drunken Driver Pelle Lindbergh off the highway, while basketball and football shake their heads at Chris Mullin and Tommy Kramer. But baseball literally cheers for hangovers. In Mel Allen's day at the Yankee mike, home runs were "Ballantine blasts." Now the St. Louis Cardinals do their rallying to the Budweiser jingle played incessantly on the Busch Stadium organ...
...lesser charge of manslaughter. A fourth had been found innocent of all charges. Though the gray decision satisfied the victim's mother, it could not dispel all the passions that have arisen among both blacks and whites since the tragedy one year ago made Howard Beach a synonym for racial tension...
...that woeful expansion team of a quarter-century ago, the Democratic candidates were supposed to be slick, blooded pros who could project an attractive image of cool competence. Instead, they have been putting on a tangle-footed show reminiscent of the blunders that made the original Mets a synonym for ineptitude...