Word: whimperers
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...historical punning proved misguided. The crisis fizzled with a whimper, euphemistically dubbed a "minor realignment" of the exchange rates crucial to European trade. Yet the image lingers: French Finance Minister Jacques Delors attacking the "arrogance and insensitivity" of his German colleagues while threatening to leave the European Monetary System (EMS), float the franc, and follow a franc and jolt France's trading posture into chaotic disrepute...
...strangely quiet denouement to one of the dirtiest, sloppiest, most wasteful takeover battles in U.S. corporate history. At its height, the contest was an unseemly spectacle of "cannibals gorging on one another," in the apt metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal...
...goal deficit and its eventual overtime victory managed to be less than inspiring. In past years, when fans filed in for the late game and saw Northeastern playing they took interest and cheered on the Huskies. This time the opener met with massive indifference. Appropriately, it ended with a whimper, not a bang, when Jim Averill's off-speed shot dribbled past Harvard's backup goalie...
...that Chilly Scenes is fun to watch. The absurdity of what goes on, emphasized by the ironic self-reflection and witty dialogue, works in tune with the more sobering point of the story--that life, in spite of momentary illusion, goes on much as it began: with a whimper...
...Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit. Another, like many of the veterans in olive drab, added his name to an ad hoc battalion sheet someone had staked in the ground; he stood back, saluted, saw his reflection in the polished black stone, then let out a kind of agonized whimper before two buddies led him away. An Illinois mother ran her fingers once, twice across the name JERRY DANAY, who was killed by a rocket. "It makes me feel closer," Helen Danay said as she remembered...