Word: abound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other questionable shelters abound. Precious jewels can be donated to charity and then two or three times their presumed value deducted from the donor's income. Luxury cars can be bought ostensibly for business purposes and provide large tax savings. BMW once advertised itself as "the car that shelters you from boredom as well as taxes...
Such interludes abound throughout the film. And though many are not as funny as intended, they at least serve to transmit the feeling of New York City's colorful West side in the summertime. Zee and Eli frequent the New York Philharmonic's free concerts in Central Park, visit the Museum of Natural History, and Zee practices her singing (the career she dropped when she got married) at the "Improv...
...when Blacks arrived en masse in the nation's central cities these cities were in deep economic decline and had few opportunities open for their new citizens. Examples abound. Between 1948 and 1977 Chicago lost over 450,000 jobs in the manufacturing, wholesale and retail sectors but gained only about 50,000 jobs in the service sector. Since 1948, New York City lost 600,000 jobs in the same sectors-including about 450,000 jobs since 1967-while the offsetting gains in New York amounted to only 30,000 jobs in the service sector since 1967. The story is much...
Stories about the gods and goddesses who collect full salaries abound and for the most part I understand that they must be left to their mountain-top citadels. But the graduate students who are made to preside over so much of the undergraduate education at Harvard ought to be asked by responsible academic administrators to reform. Many are perhaps competent. But how can we tell unless they take the time to plan their work carefully; unless they read the material they teach with intelligence, so that they themselves can contribute something, instead of pushing off their work onto students most...
...intelligent pattern or two. Taylor and Calnek aren't so dumb as to take themselves or the show seriously (a Battle of the Sexes satire in drag?), but they abandon the sterile money/sex/class warfare formula of recent years for some genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets of wisdom. Moon and McDonald's are, in fact, recurring themes throughout...