Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, the 30-minute Dinkins speech recalled the history of American slavery. "Tonight we forge a new link in that chain as [a Black man attains] the highest office of the greatest city in the world," he said...
...having the most kids can't raise them, and those who can afford kids aren't having them. O.K. then. Who should raise the first generation of 21st century teenagers? The healthy, efficient yuppies, who just might be able to fit a child into their Filofax schedules? Or the chain-smoking unmarrieds of the underclass, with lives of noisy desperation awaiting them like so many episodes of Married . . . With Children? In a society where childless can still be a near synonym for lifeless, are the "wrong" people having too many kids? Are there any right parents...
...repair earthquake damage. They stand to recover perhaps two-thirds of that from international reinsurers -- Lloyd's of London is the biggest -- which protect insurers against catastrophic losses. Still, the earthquake claims, coming less than a month after the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo, could set off a chain reaction. Reinsurers might become reluctant to continue backstopping American insurers, which in turn would write fewer policies and raise premiums -- and not just on earthquake insurance...
...Vanities, Tom Wolfe caricatured the voracious men who work 16-hour days, earn outrageous salaries that never keep pace with their desires, and consider themselves "Masters of the Universe." But Wolfe was a tourist; Lewis issues his catcalls from deep inside the jungle. At the top of the food chain is Salomon's CEO, who presides with a smooth amalgam of drive and hypocrisy, speaking loftily of social issues and encouraging his staff to bilk the clients. Below him are ranks of predators, among them a man so dedicated to consumption that he is labeled "the Human Piranha"; a Briton...
...this insensitivity that allowed one of my Harvard friends to tell me, only half in jest, that "One Jew at Harvard Business school is worth 1000 rednecks on a chain gang...