Word: buster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government coffers. In moving to raise interest rates last week, the Federal Reserve wagered in effect that an increase now would prevent the economy from overheating and maintain inflation at its current modest level of about 3%. That combination of sustainable growth and stable prices could be a deficit buster's best friend...
...United States is facing an economic border war. It has nothing to do with NAFTA, but its consequences make Ross Perot's giant sucking sound seem like nothing more that a Dust-Buster. Yet the only skirmish to receive national attention was packaged as a battle about benefits for domestic partners...
...actors (who mix German and English) from Hamburg's experimental Thalia Theater. As Kathchen, Annette Paulmann is truly incomparable: it's safe to say that nothing like her combination of sexuality and idiocy has ever been seen before. As Wilhelm, Stefan Kurt is equally good with both Buster Keaton looniness and the melodramatic pathos into which he collapses after losing his mind (and, again, his trousers). Nobody has ever made sliminess more winning than Dominique Horwitz as Pegleg. True to his show-biz heart, he doesn't disappear inside his 10-ft.-tall black coffin until he has sung some...
...Listen, Buster," a close relative said during this difficult period, "nobody's staring at you, and when you suck in your gut like that, your eyes bug out." Not everyone understands sentiment. And as Waller wrote, "Where great passion leaves off and mawkishness begins, I'm not sure." He's still not sure, but he's headed there, leading a wagon train of believers. As of last week, Bridges had sold 4.1 million copies and had stayed on the best-seller lists for 63 weeks, 33 of those in first place. That's a lot of hankies. Steven Spielberg...
...siblings. You may be surprised by the stuff they know. Finally, you could confront her, kind of. Raise your eyebrows and murmur, "I know what you did last night." If she blushes and says, "Yeah, I have eight pages done, two to go," you're on your way, buster. But if she says, "Yeah, sorry about the noise," then unfortunately you may be out of luck...