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Until then Time Warner will have to brace for swings in the company's stock price as investors debate the merits of the rights offering, which is scheduled to begin June 17 if the SEC approves. But nobody ever said high finance was for the faint of heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Finance: A Novel -- and Complex -- Offer | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...mouth. A friend of mine, a speechwriter for Sen. Tom Harkin, asked my advice on writing a speech for the West Virginia AFL-CIO. I suggested that he discuss the history of the labor movement in West Virginia, including the famous, bloody massacre at Paint Creek. Because of my faint Appalachian lilt, my friend understood it as "Pink Creek." Only a last-minute phone call saved the senator from certain humiliation...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Author! Author! Wherefore Art Thou, Author? | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...brevity of our careers means that each of us alone cannot really hope to effect radical change. Year to year, the University will stay about the same and the students will continue to come and go, littering Harvard's halls with hundreds of written pages, but only faint memories of the messages they contained...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Finding a Voice | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...wonder a faint air of depression surrounds his movies. Reasonable behavior is not a quality likely to get you very far at this late date in this unreasonable century. Or, as he demonstrates in his soft-spoken but boldly imagined new comedy, Defending Your Life, very far in the afterlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...grammatical ambiguity of the statement was disheartening. Was I supposed to stop when I felt faint or after I actually fainted? And isn't being short of breath what exercise is all about? I got short of breath just walking over...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Climbing the Stairway to Hell | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

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