Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle in 1937 to add six more Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Corcoran went into private law practice in 1941 and, using his contacts made in Congress and federal agencies, successfully represented major businesses and defense contractors. Periodically accused of influence-peddling, he once remarked, "Every time I wag my ass on the Hill, someone reads cosmic importance into...
Nova is not content merely to wag its finger. Having identified the problems, the program suggests solutions-and sounds a tocsin. In Switzerland, a country with one-tenth the fire-casualty rate of the U.S., the show notes, chimney sweeps are required to clean and inspect every building regularly. "Many say that Americans would not tolerate the rules and regulations and residential inspections of the Swiss," viewers are advised. "Americans, it seems, would rather burn.'' -By Philip Faflick
...political cartooning. From his editorial-page perch at the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, MacNelly had drawn and quartered Washington wildlife through eleven years and four Administrations. His winsome wit and goofily graceful draftsmanship had won him two Pulitzer prizes and syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine too long. Says he: "I would like to work end to end on something." Though he plans to spend more time on Shoe and the featherbrained journalists who work for the Treetops Tattler Tribune, MacNelly is hardly going out on a limb: started less...
Dubbed by one Wall Street wag the "Accountants' Full Employment Act of 1977," the legislation has forced companies not only to beef up their internal auditing staffs but to check and double-check the propriety of even the most inconsequential payments. Example: in Xerox's Cairo office, local staffers had to get permission from a senior corporate officer in the U.S. before they could pay $8 a month in tips to Egyptian telex and telephone repairmen...
They are promoting the buttons with radio spots and a comic strip ad in Spanish and English that shows youngsters debating dating strategy. In case a boy doesn't get the message, one wag suggests that the coed can always remove the pin and make her point in another...