Word: bernsteining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...essays are less impressive. One, titled Experiment and Traditional Forms in Contemporary Literature, starts off early with a solecism ("Contemporary literary works such as Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma . . .") and then goes rapidly downhill. George Steiner, Leslie Fiedler and Theodore Roszak, all of whom have commercial-publishing credentials, turn in rather shaky performances before the smaller houses of the little magazines...
...transfusion of cash into new institutions is putting severe strains on some older ones. An estimated 90% of the 4,560 savings and loans are now losing money. Industry Analyst Jonathan E. Gray of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. warns that, if interest rates do not abate, perhaps as many as one-third of them will close down in the next five years. Two weeks ago, the Economy Savings and Loan Association of Chicago became the first federally chartered institution to fail in a decade. Many other S and Ls will be forced to merge, as the stronger take over...
...Angeles, 80% of home buyers already use these and other nontraditional methods of financing. In one typical case, David and Jackie Bernstein paid for a new $295,000 home in Los Angeles with $1 10,000 earned on their old house, a first mortgage of $94,000 at 9.5% interest, a second one for $50,000 at 12%, and a third one from the seller for $41,000 at 15%. Then via a complex system of "balloon" payments, they were able to bring the actual interest rate down...
...During the streak, a contingent of fans showed up at Wrigley Field wearing paper bags over their heads, and another group wore disguises. "We're too embarrassed to show our faces," said Disc Jockey Bob Del Giorno from behind a fake nose and eyeglasses. Season Ticket Holder Al Bernstein, however, is one of the many who declined to join the covered-face revolt...
Coming into her senior year Lisa Bernstein had three main goals--besides softball. One was to pass all of her courses and graduate on time. Second was to enjoy her senior year, and third was to find a job for when she got out. Sipping beer, Lisa explains the job offer she accepted from a computer company in Oregon. She turned and asks, smiling, "Guess which goal I lave left to pass--I mean attain...