Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theme the decline of morality in American culture. He cited several sexually explicit and violent scenes in the movie The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and said, "The politically correct, properly liberal notion is -- liberal in the sense of having no standards -- is that we should never dig deeper to consider whether a given work is true...
...favorite car of fat cats now seems to be suffering from a weight problem of its own. Mercedes-Benz heralded its new "S-class" autos as "the best cars in the world" when they were launched in March, a pointed dig at newly arrived Japanese rivals in the luxury market. But the S-class dream car has collided with the no-kidding-around standards of the German government, which require car companies to declare the "gross weight" of their models in actual use. Auto Motor und Sport, an industry magazine based in Stuttgart, pointed out that when a Mercedes 300SE...
...Right now," says Shamsuddin, a young farmer, "it is an effort for me even to talk to you. How can I dig and shovel earth without food in my belly...
...such as a Securities and Exchange Commission official - in an effort to discredit their companies and drive the stocks down. Michael Russell, who ran a chain of business journals, testified that a Feshbach employee called his bankers and interfered with his loans. Sometimes the Feshbachs send private detectives to dig up dirt on firms, which is then shared with business reporters, brokers and fund managers...
...book's second level, an archaeological dig through Reagan's attitudes, deals with why the President was often AWOL and other puzzles. Growing up the son of an alcoholic father explains in part Reagan's aversion to conflict in the official family. Cannon, having lived with the same burden, writes of this with special sensitivity. More-opaque layers of the Reagan psyche -- his capacity for self-deception and his tendency to let myth taint important policies -- tie in to his Hollywood fixation with happy endings...