Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What do you think the devil is going to look like if he's around? . . . He will be attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and . . . he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women...
...network reporter with nothing on his mind but making it. Does an avid stockbroker, like the one in Wall Street, want to make a quick kill? Then he will sell himself to the nearest killer -- a raider who is part Ivan Boesky, more Mephistopheles. Cut a deal with the devil, and you may become...
...little in the way of specifics. The conferees did not spell out where the new tax burden was going to fall. Nor did they decide which nondefense discretionary programs were going to lose $6 billion over the next two years. Congressional leaders will have to deal with the devil in those details...
Heeling the Devil: Last year's champion Duke Blue Devils--who defeated Harvard, 3-1, in the 1986 semifinals--have already been eliminated from the NCAA tournament. The Tarheels of North Carolina burned the favored Devils, 2-0, in first-round action last weekend...
...expected to be only 2% next year, because of a deeply ingrained memory of the hyperinflation the country experienced in the 1920s. Says West German Economist Dieter Mertens: "Inflation is regarded by most Germans as on a par with Communist domination and morally equivalent to the work of the devil." Even a rate of 3% or 4% is unacceptably high to Finance Minister Stoltenberg, whose resistance to foreign prodding has earned him the nickname "Ice Prince" among U.S. economic officials. The 59-year-old, white-haired Stoltenberg, the son of a Protestant pastor, is revered in West Germany...