Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush sounded buoyant as he flew fromsnow-dusted Michigan to Ohio, Missouri and finallytoward a campaign curtain-closer in Houston...
Saturday's game was closer than most the Crimson has played this year. But it had a familiar result. Just another despairing page in the Crimson's diary...
...Judy absorbing too many Punches. So it is a tonic to meet the Italian Americans in John Patrick Shanley's plays (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and films (Moonstruck). The residents of Shanley's Little Italy dare to express their feelings in street poetry whose melodic line is closer to Verdi's than to Bon Jovi's. In his new off-Broadway play Shanley goes further, announcing that these days it is the women who have aerobicized their hearts and the men who are love-sick. Shanley knows that men are the last dying breed of romantics. Of course...
...buyout binge is causing concern among U.S. financial regulators. Responding in writing to questions from the Senate Banking Committee last week, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the Fed had cautioned banks about extending loans for leveraged buyouts. He suggested that Congress take a closer look at tax provisions that encourage such buyouts. Greenspan's views sent a tremor through the stock market, and share prices of companies involved in takeovers took a tumble, as many investors turned fearful that the buyout boom could suddenly go bust...
...Oval Office door. The ease with which Bush has skirted the boundaries of truth in the campaign remains troubling. Last week, while coasting on a comfortable lead, the Vice President felt compelled to charge that Dukakis' economic nostrums are "far outside the mainstream," and snidely hinted that they come closer to European-style socialism than American free enterprise. It is a scant defense to suggest that these hyperbolic words were scripted by Bush's handlers; a President too, if he does not exercise restraint, can be at the mercy of his speechwriters. Balanced against this is the high-level technical...