Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cluster of boys with slicked-back hair and hair nets jostle one another. A black boy wanders by, a nylon stocking pulled over his head. The lunch bell summons everyone indoors. Only two people remain outside: the visitor and the longhaired boy who has the word LOVE tattooed in bold, blue letters across the fingers of his right hand. He asks: "Are you a new security guard or something...
Almost certainly, the recuperating President will win much of what he seeks: a sharp curtailment of the Government's propensity to spend ever more. Yet whether Congress will Peter Sweeney also accept Reagan's bold, if risky, three-year cut in income tax rates for individuals remains in doubt. The outcome could vastly influence the nation's immediate economic future...
Weill's new partner Robinson has already described his bold vision of the future of finance. Said he recently: "By the end of the decade, a typical consumer may have a stockbroker in California, a banker in New York, an insurance agent in Maryland and a real estate agent jetting back and forth from Chicago to Boston. All of that will be on his American Express card, of course...
...plot concerns the "Johnson County Wars." In the late 19th century, rich cattle barons hire an army of well-trained assassins to rid the Wyoming territory of poor immigrants who steal their cattle in order to survive. Cimino wanted to make a bold statement about the injustice of the American aristocracy, he wanted to show the corruption of the Frontier Spirit. Not a bad idea. And crawling through Heaven's Gate's quagmire of chaotic, irrelevant scenes, unexplained connections between events, unclear alliances between people, and awful dialogue, you can find traces of that original idea...
...same ambiguity has hampered Giscard at home. He began his mandate with a bold series of reforms. Within 26 months he lowered the French minimum voting age from 21 to 18, liberalized divorce laws and legalized abortion. Then his zeal flagged. Giscard has not changed a tax system that he once denounced as favoring the rich. Nor has he reformed the notoriously centralized French government. A close confidant of the President explains that "Giscard simply has become more realistic about the speed with which change can take place...