Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Salvucci's plan would also turn part of Route 2 into an eight-lane highway. Cyr called this "putting high-speed lanes back into the city, something that runs contrary to Boston's rule of thumb." He said Boston follows a general policy of keeping highways on its periphery...
...downhill and slalom) and the / super-G (a compressed, curvier downhill). Walliser managed a bronze in the combined and Figini a silver in the super-G, but interest swung to their teammate Brigitte Oertli (two silvers) and to Canada's new hope, Karen Percy. Skiing with a broken left thumb, she took a bronze in the downhill, scraped out a fourth in the combined with her left pole flopping uselessly behind her as she ran the slalom, then took another bronze in the super...
...former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who was appointed special prosecutor in May 1986. After the verdict, Seymour, himself a Republican, lashed out at the Reagan Administration for its lack of ethical leadership. Without such a guiding example, he said, the best that special prosecutors can do is "put a thumb in the dike...
WASHINGTON--The prosecutor in Michael K. Deaver's perjury trial said yesterday the former presidential aide's conviction is only a "thumb in the dike" against the flood of influence peddling in Washington...
Seymour said that "until the attitudes of government leaders change, there is little that prosecutors can do except put a thumb in the dike...