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...flashy wealth displayed by investment firms has created a backlash on Main Street, which watched with mounting fury as Wall Street got rich through paper-shuffling deals that manipulated companies at the expense of workers and communities. "There's a lot of pent-up anger and disgust with behavior on Wall Street," says Samuel Hayes, an investment-banking professor at the Harvard Business School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predator's Fall: Drexel Burnham Lambert | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...addition, the Harry Palms (Glenn Kessler) character is completely unnecessary and really disgusting. Endless references to masturbation do not add to the show's appeal--they serve only to annoy or disgust where another character might have added. Kessler's Dracula look, however, is very funny and he does the best he could with a completely repulsive role...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Pudding Heights | 2/21/1990 | See Source »

After a prolonged period of introspection, I realized that my fear of death and ensuing eternity of darkness was no longer my number one anxiety. Now I worried about job interviewers blowing their noses in my resume in disgust. Resumes, I concluded, were worse than death. After all, you die only once, but you have to redo your resume again and again...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Do the Resume Thing | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...have a strong scientific skills and interests, but they are leaving the sciences after arriving here. That is why Harvard is mistaken in concentrating its efforts on the high school level. Campaigns to spark interest in science at an early age are useless if that interest is crushed by disgust in freshman year. Leo Clark '92 Applied Mathematics (Considering switching to Social Studies

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Introductory Courses Cause Frosh to Leave Sciences | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...hundreds of meetings across the country, including Communist Party gatherings, people poured out their disgust, demanding that their former leaders be investigated and, if necessary, tried and punished. Inevitably, perhaps, the time for retribution had come. During one of the almost nightly mass rallies in Leipzig, the mood was summed up by a young speaker who condemned the regime, shouting "You treated us like a herd of cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Of Turncoats and Scapegoats | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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