[M]ost fail to mention that antitrust, the law of competitive marketplaces, is the first area where bork left his mark.
And bork would never have thought that anyone owed him a word of thanks.
bork did not meet these ordinary American consumers or businesses.
According to bork, Richardson agreed to do so but he never did.
When I asked Richardson why he never defended bork at the time—or later—his answer was classic Washington: “No one asked me.”
So bork and Thorkel both ran forward and were quicker than Thorgeir.
Why not send for my friend, the famous Doctor bork, of Christiania?
A minute later Hanson, bork and Nema were alone with the old man.
Behind him, he heard bork's chuckle and the soft laughter of Sather Karf.
There was a sharp explosion, a hissing, and bork's voice calling.
to seek to obstruct a political appointment or selection; also, to attack a political opponent viciously
from the incident involving Robert Bork, US Supreme Court nominee in 1987
politics
1987, "to discredit a candidate for some position by savaging his or her career and beliefs," from name of U.S. jurist Robert H. Bork (1927-2012), whose Supreme Court nomination in 1987 was rejected after an intense counter-campaign.
noun
: close ranks to coordinate a huge preemptive bork
verb
To mount an intense campaign against a political appointee; bushwhack: ''We're going to Bork him,'' proclaimed a feminist advocate
[late 1980s+; fr the experience of Judge Robert Bork, whose 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by strong concerted opposition]
