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In January 1982, the Washington Public Power Supply System (unaffectionately known as "Whoops") defaulted on $2.25 billion in bonds issued to finance two of its six nuclear power plants; WPPSS is still trying to complete two of the units, while two others have been mothballed. Even more expensive was the...
EQUALLY PROBLEMATIC is the film's notable lack of character development. Most of the characters are one dimensional, performing gratuitous actions without motivation. Why Mike chooses, for example, to play white slave to a decadent Black homosexual remains a mystery, as does most of his entire background. Similarly, though we...
Geisha is full of anecdotes about the social life of the geisha, but interestingly enough, Dalby concentrates on the interpersonal geisha relationships rather than supplying the reader with what is most fascinating--how a banquet is run and what it is in particular about geisha that make them so exotic...
During the past few months, however, Lehman Brothers has been roiling. A split over management and pay policies developed between its investment bankers, who manage the firm's traditional corporate business, and its traders, who buy and sell stocks and bonds. Three key banking partners have left, and others...
Bought by Millionaire Oilman Clint Murchison for $600,000 in 1960, the Dallas Cowboys were sold for some $75 million last week to an eleven-member local consortium headed by Multimillionaire H.R. ("Bum") Bright, who likened the purchase to art collecting ("You can enjoy it even though you didn'...