Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page, 3,000-word essay's most memorable passages, if only for their high-pitched earnestness, graphically express Reagan's strong views. He attacks Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state laws prohibiting abortion. Since then, the President says, "more than 15 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions." Turning almost harrowingly explicit, Reagan writes: "The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life?The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make...
...size of the theater dwarf and separate the characters (Rauch, however, uses the space very evenly), but the rows of seats provide frustrating barriers between them. Characters, unable to make themselves heard or understood, race down aisles, violently pushing up the seats in their frustration. Not only does this express what words cannot, but it builds a frenzy of tension and frustration. In one particularly evocative scene. Nina and Constantine--reunited after a lengthy separation--survey an entire section of chairs with the seats pushed up. Eventually, they move to the bottom row, and each pulls down one seat...
Competitors are having a hard time catching up with Merrill Lynch. Shearson/American Express has attracted only 25,000 customers for its version of the money-management account (annual fee: $100), which includes use of an American Express Gold Card. Says Chairman Sanford Weill: "I think it's the best account of its type, but there are 500,000 customers who have not followed...
Competition is particularly fierce because nearly all the financial supermarkets are going after the same customers: the 6 million U.S. households with incomes of $50,000 a year or more. American Express calls this group "the harried leisure class." These are dual-income families that earn plenty of money, but have little time to manage it. Last year that group socked away $128 billion in sayings deposits and put an additional $69 billion into money-market and mutual funds...
After market studies showed consumers would be willing to pay higher fees for East and simple bank transactions, Citibank created different levels of service, depending on the bank balance. For instance, a customer with $25,000 on deposit is guaranteed an express teller line with no more than a two-minute wait; $10,000 yields a slower teller line with a five-minute limit. The bank is now testing a program where customers with less than $5,000 in their accounts cannot see a teller to make deposits and withdrawals. Instead, they will have to queue up at an electronic...