Word: weaponeering
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...countless others who earn their living swimming in the deal flow. By tearing down barriers between banking, insurance and brokerage, Congress practically erected a billboard on Wall Street reading MORE SALAD DAYS AHEAD. Few financial companies will want to brave the world of financial conglomerates with only one weapon. Anticipating a torrent of consolidation, speculators have been driving up shares of potential target banks, such as Chase, and brokerages, such as PaineWebber...
...social handshake has its anthropological origins in the idea of primitive man showing he was not carrying a weapon, the political handshake springs from long ago when a king's touch might do magic and when the power of such connection seemed infinitely more pertinent than the potential germs. To touch was to partake somehow--maybe even through the germs--of the king's magic. Surely voters will imagine that when they shake hands with Donald Trump, gold will rub off. (Of course, bad magic may also be communicated. Maybe the handshake with Herbert Hoover many years ago explains...
...impossible for the band to get ice time at Brighton Hockey center, the Harvard and Yale bands engaged in an annual 2 a.m. hockey game. Two minutes before the end of one now-historic game, the Harvard side was down by several goals. Finally, they sent out their secret weapon: a band members who also started for the hockey team...
Despite a potential conflict in style, Everett stuck with the band, and in the process became "the Band's supreme protector and secret weapon," according to Goulet...
...that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process - the centerpiece of his foreign policy legacy - could grind to a halt. Failure to agree on peace, of course, wouldn't necessarily result in a return to war. Arafat has already taken the PLO so far down the diplomatic road that the only weapon they have left is pleading for U.S. intercession. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, Barak knows that...