Word: throwing
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Zimmerman did more than attend games. Two years ago, when he felt the basketball team's free-throw shooting skills were declining, he endowed a small award to motivate the players...
...team now presents the Zimmerman Award--a plaque and Harvard tie symbolic of the sports coat and tie he wore to each game--at its annual dinner to the team's best free-throw shooter...
...problem in that instance was more alarming, since it seems to have involved the complicity of a company commander and ignorance of the problem several levels above that. Says Thompson: "At Fort Wood, it seems to be a horizontal problem, not a vertical one. Their approach seems to be 'throw the rotten apples out of the barrel before they infect the other apples.' " Thompson adds that commanders at Fort Leonard Wood had begun taking action to protect female recruits before the Aberdeen incident broke, but are now bearing down more firmly. "Female recruits presenting allegations of sexual harassment...
DALLAS: American Airlines pilots are preparing to stage a walkout if their contract demands are not met. The dispute, which could throw American Airlines into the grips of a full-scale strike by February 15, comes only a few months after the union and the company appeared to have reached a period of d?tente. A tentative agreement was reached in September of 1996, after 2 years of hard-fought negotiations that had stalled the growth of the airline, forcing it to hold back on the purchase of 103 planes, worth $6.6 billion. In September, it seemed that American would finally...
...regard to L'Affaire Newt, I would say, "Mr. Speaker, people who work in crass Houses shouldn't throw stones." CHARLES J. HUEBNER Harbor Springs, Michigan...