Word: betting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion business tax cut Congress passed last year. These executives expect little change soon. Said AT&T Chairman Charles Brown: "Tremendous plant capacity is lying unused now. It'll be a long time before anybody expands again." Added T.A. Wilson, chairman of Boeing: "We're betting on the downside. If we bet on a fast recovery and it didn't happen, we could be in real trouble." Even Walter Wriston, the eternally optimistic head of the Business Council and chairman of New York's Citibank, tempered his upbeat remarks with ominous words...
...have happily not abandoned. Keep "Planet Claire," "Rock Lobster," and "Private Idaho" stored away in a safe place for future listening pleasure. You'll need em again, Go get "Mesopotamia." It's not limited or pretentious. Just try to keep still when playing it. Just try not to giggle. Bet you can't. The party's not stopping. It is just moving to a different room...
...friends and associates were stunned by the charges and reports that he had left behind brokerage debts totaling $22 million. Said Delmar Cram, principal of Humboldt High School, where Lewellyn was once student body president: "It's shocking as heck. Morally, you would have bet your bottom dollar on him." Cram added that Lewellyn was an "ambitious boy with sights set on the stratosphere." The Iowa criminal investigation division and federal agents are not looking quite that far, but they are checking leads in Costa Rica and Hong Kong...
Even out of the pool, Watson has proved capable of unusual displays of athletic prowess. Watson's roommate bet him $5 that he couldn't do a backflip off the top step of Widener library. The roommate was wrong...
...Theroux had really been interested in probing the soul of America, it would have been more revealing to explain how a character like Allie Fox managed to survive the ravages of an undisciplined society. To understand what's wrong with America. John Uplike's probably a better bet. His latest, Rabbit is Rich, stays within the society of inflation that Theroux can only deal with by escaping. It's a book about how real people live. For an intelligent, incisive opinion on the shape of people's minds in other lands, a friend of Theroux's--V.S. Naipaul...