Word: churned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion last week, is dwarfed by the total amount of dollar trading, some $150 billion, that swirls through the currency markets each day. But the central banks can move the market because of their resolute purpose; they hold on to their purchases, even at a loss, while speculators constantly churn their holdings. Moreover, last week's intervention was far more aggressive and flamboyant than usual. The Fed, which generally makes orders in $10 million batches, was trading marks for dollars in king-size packages of $25 million. Normally the Fed would carry out such transactions stealthily. But last week...
...contrast to Korea's large corporations, Taiwan's companies, which churn out products as diverse as calculators and vaccines, tend to be small. But they make big waves in world trade. With the U.S. alone, Taiwan piled up a $16 billion surplus last year. That has stirred anger in Washington, which has forced Taiwan to raise the value of its currency, and is threatening protectionist retaliation because the country keeps its domestic market closed to U.S. imports...
Fricke fills Chronos with natural events that occur at unnatural speeds: clouds churn like white water crashing against rocks, water spins dizzyingly and car lights advance so rapidly they been one bright squiggles against a backdrop of blackness. The moon moves across the sky like a second hand on a clock. A lake fills with water and then suddenly drys up. Food decays faster than it could ever be eaten...
...unenviable task of critiquing a talent-laden but inconsistent show falls to me, a lowly typewriter hack. Some parts of the monarch's performance were very good, especially when he steered clear of his past hits and focused on his recent or lesser-heard material. Watching Costello churn out perfunctory versions of "Alison" and "Every Day I Write the Book," however, gave me the distinct impression that, for all his barbed wit and rebel posturing, Costello is not above pandering to a hit-hungry crowd...
...dialogue. This does pay off in two climactic hospital scenes where the raw exposition is nicely translated into emotion: Patti whispers anesthetic incantations into her mother's ear, then offers revelation and forgiveness as a kind of requiem prayer. Mostly, though, the plot motors along with the same predictable churn as the new Bruce Springsteen song that gives the movie its title...