Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry lobbying and killed a plan to emphasize environmental considerations in offshore oil leases. Carter wanted to shelve 23 major water projects dear to the lawmakers' local interests, but he had to settle for killing nine and curtailing four?still a sharp break from the tradition of unstoppable pork barrel construction...
...classic and more recent detective flicks, but does his cribbing in style. The actors, meanwhile, are heavily, and affectingly, into themselves: particularly the kharma and vibrations-obsessed Tomlin. With the same L.A. backdrop that the great Chandler stories grew out of, this one proves as well-oiled as the barrel on a Smith and Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum...
...really feel. You people have almost destroyed us, but we are coming back to our own way, our own way of thinking," the Lieutenant Governor of the reservation intimates, with a deep, buttery, Indian voice which somehow dissolves all doubts. Raymond Moore is fortyish, with a big, barrel-like frame from which his voice bellows, interpreted by a benign stern face. Raymond Moore is the kind of man who can tell you stories that scare children and men equally...
...executives the risks now outweigh the potential rewards. Says Grant Simmons Jr., chairman of Simmons Co., the Georgia mattress maker: "Ten years ago, management would make investment decisions on the basis of intuitive, broad-stroke guesses. Now we want to be damn sure we see the fish in the barrel before we shoot...
...part Steinbrenner, a barrel-chested former athlete and coach who became head of a shipbuilding company, considered himself a man who knew how to handle street fighters. Before he hired Martin-who had been dumped from his past three managing jobs-Steinbrenner closely questioned the other owners. The pattern, as he saw it, was clear: Martin each time-in Minnesota, Detroit and Texas-had shrewdly turned the players against management to his own advantage. "These other guys didn't choose to take Billy on," said Steinbrenner. "I felt I could change him." As a start, he got Martin...