Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...damage caused in the charged culprit's suite, the money will be of no use. Those tack holes aren't really going to be filled in. In reality, when you write checks to Harvard for decorating misdeeds, you are paying an arbitrary amount of money as punishment...
...other words, if you tack a poster to your wall and make a hole, you are charged not for the repair of the tackhole, but merely for the evil act of using the tack...
...Niceberg, L. Rufino-Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Helen May, Michael Skinner Graphics Production: Kenneth Collura, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...
Theory two: Appeasing the Conservatives. This is the "right wing conservatives are so stupid, they don't know anything" tack. Believing that conservatives are angry with Bush for his soft Gorbachev-loving persona, the administration sent Quayle out to appease the critics. Meanwhile, back in Malta, Bush was telling Gorbachev that Quayle had no influence in foreign policy matters...