Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most troubling effect of the consolidations has been the creation of a huge and worrisome mountain of debt. In the past two years nearly $200 billion in stock has vanished from corporate treasuries and been replaced with IOUs that must be paid. By the end of the third quarter, American firms had built up $1.4 trillion in debt. In the same period corporate debt has increased more than 10% annually. These big borrowings, moreover, are part of a trend that has seen almost every sector of the U.S. economy become a rapidly growing debtor. From the $200 billion federal budget...
...creation of specific architecture courses will reflect the growing view that the study of buildings is a self-contained discipline independent of art history...
Along with the takeover tussles come some new stock offerings. The most unusual is the creation of Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, 37, the author of hit musicals, including Cats and Evita. Last week it was announced that early next year investment bankers at Schroder Wagg will offer to the public shares in Lloyd Webber's company, called Really Useful. Last year the firm had pre-tax profits of $3.1 million, and it owns the rights to everything Lloyd Webber has written since 1978. Stockholders will get a share of royalties each time an elevator plays a Muzak-treated tune from...
...Republican leaders have another, less public reason to scorn Rostenkowski's creation. The Chicago Democrat went about winning committee members by offering them special tax breaks for business and industry back home in exchange for support of the overall bill. Many Republican areas, however, were left off Rostenkowski's gift list...
There is no mistaking this movie as a Speilberg creation, even if the mass-market messiah is only one of three executive producers listed in the seemingly endless movie credits. Holmes is almost a Spielberg parody. Outrageously expensive special effects trot across the screen screaming aloud, "We cost millions to make you piss in your pants," as terminally cute characters engage in chaste romance and enormous props explode and collapse in a display of Hollywood consumerism so grotesque they make The Blues Brothers Movie look like a college thesis project...