Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...target has been the 10,000 city hall patronage jobs awarded to the city's 50 ward committeemen on the basis of their performance at the polls. The more votes they bring out, the more jobs they get for friends. When public scolding, sarcasm and humiliation did not force committeemen into line, Calamity Jane, as her detractors also call her, fired or demoted their friends outright. But the younger Daley refused to knuckle under and has emerged as the biggest threat to her drive for total power...
...consumer affairs for New York City is hardheaded about bargaining over terms, especially when buying a home. Counsels Myerson: "If you find the house fails to meet certain standards, you should not immediately cross it off your list. But, armed with the information of what is needed to bring the house up to high standards, you gain the leverage you need to convince the seller to lower the price...
...letter buttons, he presses Enter, and the machine says, "That is correct. Now spell extra." Or, if the speller has made a mistake, the machine says, "Wrong. Try again." The sentences are lifelike, and the pitch of the voice rises and falls in a normal way. Two wrong attempts bring the correct spelling, spoken aloud, and a new word to try. After ten words, another little tune plays, and the machine gives the speller's score, with special congratulations if all ten have been spelled correctly...
...example, I. Bernard Cohen, Thomas Professor of the History of Science, wants Santa to bring all the American hostages in Iran home for Christmas. That's a big present, as President Carter well knows...
...much harder to bring pressure to bear on Lesley," one councilor explains. "No one writes stories about it; it's harder to attack it as a big, nasty institution...