Word: devours
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...runs the German operations for the Blackstone Group, the big U.S. buyout firm. Blackstone isn't exactly a household name in Germany. But this spring, a top German politician named Franz Müntefering likened Blackstone and other private-equity groups to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies and devour all they can before moving on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," said Müntefering, who is chairman of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and who promised to fight against what he called this "anonymous, faceless" form...
...personality clashes within the Administration, however true, turn out to be footnotes. The vaunted foreign people eaters, such as Canada's Pierre Trudeau, West Germany's Helmut Schmidt and now the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, have marched one by one into Reagan's presence. None managed to devour him. Instead they have, to a man and woman, emerged with varying degrees of respect and affection...
...Party officials led by chairman Franz Müntefering have delivered a ferocious critique of private investors that has dominated the campaign. In his most cited remarks, Müntefering compared private equity groups and short-term investors like hedge funds to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies, devour all they can, and then move on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," he told a German newspaper. The fire and brimstone is part of the spd's effort to woo back voters disillusioned by the government's own economic reforms...
...you’re hungry now, and you get that way often, then the mural of a mermaid on the wall at Pinocchio’s has probably assumed the position of that flicker that Schimert talks about. You go in for some tomato basil, and while you devour it, a blond mermaid sits behind you in her sea-world, also munching on a slice...
...enter after the appearance of this seething volume. According to the author, the Mother Goddam of movies for four decades was something else offscreen. The paranoid figure saw herself as a feminine version of Gulliver. "Never relax," she warned B.D., "or the Lilliputians will climb up your legs and devour your soul." No defect goes uncharted, from the star's alcoholism to violent maledictions from her fourth husband, Actor Gary Merrill: "The only people who can be around you for long without wanting to kill you are faggots...