Word: boundingly
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Douglas' 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, features a combination of gusto and raw intelligence. Dance with the Devil is reminiscent of those studio-bound productions with twice-breathed dialogue and a B-movie cast. If Kirk Douglas of Beverly Hills had worked only for directors like Danny Dennison, he could still be Issur Danielovitch of Amsterdam...
...have put our emphasis on the college bound, who are 30% of our young people. We have the finest university system. We have public education at the elementary and secondary level that ranks below every industrial competitor we have in the world. Everybody knows what it takes to get into college. Has anybody ever told a teacher what it takes to be productive if you don't go to college? The answer is no. We have not dignified alternatives to college. We are the only country in the industrial world that says to 1 out of every...
However new initiates fare -- and enrollment in German courses around the world is rapidly increasing -- one thing is certain: Germany's regained prominence will give a fillip to wider usage of the language, and is bound as well to contribute more words to other tongues. Already television viewers in the U.S. have seen signs of a heightened linguistic confidence on the part of the Germans. One example: a Volkswagen ad campaign that centers on the word Fahrvergnugen, or joy in driving -- however mispronounced it may be in the commercials. Only a few years ago, the use of a German word...
Those with anything but the strongest leftist leanings are bound to be unsettled by some aspect of the store's political agenda (particularly its recent affinity for the Intifada). But surrounded by a slew of "mainstream" bookstores, Revolution Books offers something truly unique in the Square, and is worth...
...last week it was "actively examining opportunities to reduce or refinance our debt." Macy's has been reeling from interest charges on $3.7 billion that it borrowed in 1986 for an LBO. The company's woes worsened last Christmas, when it tried to match desperate markdowns at the bankrupt-bound Allied and Federated department store groups -- the properties of debt-driven Canadian raider Robert Campeau. The problems of retailers were underscored last week when Ames Department Stores, which entered bankruptcy in April as a result of an ill-fated $800 million takeover of the Zayre chain, said it would shut...