Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unhappy fact is that nothing is going to change the U.S. trade-deficit picture soon. Therefore, trade frictions are liable to increase, pressures on U.S. allies to change their policies will intensify, and further currency flurries like last week's turbulent episode will remain a constant possibility. Last week's dollar plunge, says Bluford Putnam, a senior economist with the Morgan Stanley investment house, is evidence that money markets are trying to accomplish "what politicians could not do" in solving the trade issue. The same hair-raising experience shows that some other approach might be preferable...
...like a street fighter, then takes the best of what comes out of the fracas." Says Dale Dye, the Marine captain who hazed Platoon's actors to firm them up for filming: "Oliver thrives on chaos, throwing together a crew of such diverse backgrounds and ideologies that there's constant friction. It's the kind of energy he thrives on." Platoon's star, Charlie Sheen, 21, found the director "brutally honest. Which is why we clicked. After a scene he'd say, 'You sucked' or 'You nailed it.' That's just my style...
...Woody Allen. More than a fictionalized memoir, Radio Days is a tribute to Allen's work, to his friends, and to himself. This would be fine, except we have seen it all before: the indulgent self-references in Stardust Memories, the boyhood reminiscences in Annie Hall, and the constant cameos by personal friends in virtually everything he has ever done. The only thing he hasn't been able to reuse from his earlier films is their freshness...
...commissions. During this same period, he is said to have collected hundreds of millions from other corporations. Khashoggi, says Max Helzel, then vice president of Lockheed's international marketing, "became for all practical purposes a marketing arm of Lockheed. Adnan would provide not only an entree but strategy, constant advice, and analysis." His commissions started at 2.5% + and eventually rose to as much...
Stoppard said that taste and opinion become indistiguishable as a result of the constant effects of one's environment...