Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cynicism is rampant because enforcement by the Federal Election Commission is belated and haphazard. Not until 1987 did Walter Mondale's campaign pay a slap-on-the-wrist fine for grossly exceeding the Iowa and New Hampshire limits in 1984. Ronald Reagan too went way over the New Hampshire cap in 1980. Even FEC Press Official Sharon Snyder concedes, "If you were to look at all the prior campaigns, you'd get the feeling that the ones who got to the conventions were those who went over the spending limits in Iowa and New Hampshire...
...second-year captain faked left, then right, then lifted a floating wrist shot. The puck hung in the air for what seemed like forever and settled behind Princeton netminder Dodie Colavecchio...
After Co-Captain Julie Sasner sent the game into overtime with a goal late in the third period, she iced the game for Harvard with a 15-ft. wrist shot with just under two minutes remaining in sudden death...
Harvard added a goal in each of the next two periods. With 13 minutes left in the second frame, Ted Donato watched the puck bounce off the boards behind the Brown net and fall onto his stick. He gave a quick flip of his wrist, and zipped a shot past Harvey...
Strobel's unauthorized action, which earned him a slap on the wrist from the EPA and Montana State, as well as the disapproval of most U.S. scientists, was not in itself dangerous -- federal officials and researchers alike agree on that. But by sidestepping the arduous regulatory process, Strobel fanned the fears of those who think genetically altered bugs might behave unpredictably in the wild, setting off an ecological catastrophe or disrupting local ecosystems. Most scientists consider the public's fears exaggerated, but they nonetheless acknowledge the need for caution. Says David Drahos, a senior research group leader at Monsanto...