Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's ruling involved a suit by the McMahons, who own a funeral home, against giant Shearson Lehman/American Express. Back in 1984 the McMahons charged that their Shearson broker had churned their brokerage accounts, meaning that a variety of trading transactions were conducted solely to increase the brokerage commissions. The McMahons' contract with Shearson provided that disputes involving the handling of the account should be settled by private arbitration. By upholding that provision, the court ensured that brokerages will be able to divert hundreds of lawsuits from the courthouse to the arbitration room. Shearson estimates that it will save...
...they can laugh easily at their time of literary turmoil. The intervening years and gained perspective have changed them in subtle ways: Jimmy looks older; Rosalynn seems more assertive. Both remain preoccupied with politics and humanitarian causes. They quietly support their daughter Amy's | activism, defending her right to express herself. Nevertheless, scars from the past remain. In private, the couple refers to the 1980 election as "the tragedy." And Rosalynn still thinks history has treated them unfairly. Says she, with a trace of sadness: "I just think there are so many problems that I wish Jimmy had been there...
...work is a series of essays that express the radical view of a faction of faculty and students toward what they feel is an authoritarian University government structure, says Jack Trumpbour, a teaching fellow in the History Department and a contributor and editor of the book...
...produce images on the border between the orderly and the wild, at once restrained and mannerist. A wine label for Sonoma County's small Hanna Winery, for example, is no neat, well-behaved rectangle but an asymmetrical ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within a flaming triangle, bracketed by scratched asymmetrical bars top and bottom, placed over a regular field of tiny squares and beneath an action-painting slew of paint drips. Instead of hokey chaos, it is jam-packed, allusive, improbably...
...more outrageous contracts was Steve young's $40 million deal with the Los Angeles Express of the USFL. The contract would have run for 40 years--just enough time for $1 million to grow to $43 million at the interest rates of the time. Therefore, if the USFL (or the Express) had survived, the Los Angeles franchise would actually have made money on Young's contract...