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Word: chases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market break came on Tuesday. That was when the naition's banks reopened after the Columbus Day holiday, and made their response to the Fed's discount-rate rise. Led by Chase Manhattan, the nation's third largest bank, several institutions immediately raised the prime rate (the interest charged the most credit-worthy corporate customers) from 13.5%, already a record, to a new peak of 14.5%. Since quarter-point raises are the norm, the effect of the full-point boost in the prime was electric. Not only did it push the interest charged to margin investors up close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Squeeze of '79 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Francisco exteriors, where the rest of the film unfolds, and the period sets for the Victorian England scenes, captures nicely the disparate tone of the two eras: the sheltered, made-to-order past versus the open, anything-goes present. Meyer makes good use of the city, staging a riveting chase over San Francisco's split-level belvederes and sky-ways. Not that Wells spends all his time chasing Stevenson. Romance blooms in the person of Amy, an aggressive bank-executive who takes him to lunch, to the movies, and to her apartment, where Wells succumbs to her charms after...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Ripping Good Time | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...over-emphasized clues aside, the movie is a fine, taut thriller. Meyer even finds a good excuse for the mayhem of the obligatory car chase scene--the fact that Wells, in pursuit of Stevenson, must manuever San Francisco's considerable hill without knowing how to drive. In blessed contrast to The Crucifer of Blood, another recent Jack the Ripper film, Meyer keeps the gore to a minimum. In one murder, we see only the flush of his knife, followed by a tear of blood on his face--a masterful bit of understatement...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Ripping Good Time | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...criminal damage to property. The charges stem from an incident in late August, soon after the latest tower topplings. Hoyum was driving across backroads when company-hired security men, following up all leads in the case, began tailing him. What began as surveillance ended up as high-speed car chase, with the five pickup trucks full of Burns Security Guards (rented from a Chicago firm) trying to run Hoyum to earth. Debbie Pick of Gasp relates what happened next...

Author: By Winona Laduke, | Title: The Battle for the West | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...After playing lots of reprehensible characters (A Clockwork Orange) McDowell exhibits a first-rate change-up. Even more surprising is Mary Steenburgen as the junior bank officer who converts both the Ripper's and Wells' antique pounds into dollars and is thus the crucial link in their chase. Her portrayal of a liberated woman fighting and loving in two centuries is a unique amalgam of vulnerability and slow-spoken shrewdness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Hours | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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