Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richardson's indignation, if not his blunt tactics, are widely shared. Beset by tough new regulations and saddled with hastily made loans that went sour in the go-go '80s, many lenders are reluctant to grant credit even to borrowers who present few risks. While the squeeze has so far been greatest in New England and neighboring states, economists are worried that it could swiftly spread. In a report issued two weeks ago, the Federal Reserve Board noted that 80% of the U.S. banks it surveyed said they had tightened their standards on loans for office buildings. A majority...
...Francisco is not the only epicenter of this distress. Deborah Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
...tension evaporated, and the librarians tucked into lunch, with wine. Healy, 67, is a reassuring presence, a tall man with a slight, accommodating stoop, ruddy coloring and blunt features. In mufti -- which he always wears at the library -- he could pass for a football coach or, with more pronounced sartorial accents, an aging sportswriter. He can discuss old movies or baseball or Virgil. He is, in fact, wildly articulate but manages to wear that gaudy mantle easily, without any of William F. Buckley Jr.'s arcane showboating...
...Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding herds of livestock and driving out hundreds of families, the Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast of Houston, officials issued a blunt warning: "Get out now." A most discouraging word came from Trinity River Authority spokesman John Jadrosich, who said floods may linger through the summer in a "mega- natural disaster...
WHAT A MAN WEIGHS. Sherry Kramer's astringent off-Broadway play starts out as blunt, confrontational feminism, but its view of sexual politics becomes more and more complex, funny and biting...