Word: flood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever-present cigarette smoke blowing around Quilty and Charlotte Haze's heads. Ethics become obscured amid scenes filled with sweeping vistas of mountains and green hills. Ennio Morricone's contemplative musical score swells with a "Rhapsody in Blue"-like theme, contributing to the movie's seductive power to flood our ears and eyes with only the most blameless of sense experience...
...bets in global markets. At the peak of its borrowing, the secretive fund reportedly carried a debt load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge-fund managers believe that a leverage ratio in excess of 50 to 1 is exceptionally large and very risky," says Hunt Taylor, executive director of Tass Management, a hedge-fund consulting firm...
Helping her in the back line are three All Ivy League Honorable Mention Players, juniors Deane-Kocivar Norbury, senior Jackie Flood and sophomore Shannon Porter...
What I find most alarming in the Clinton-Lewinsky affair [SPECIAL REPORT, Aug. 31] is the apparent flood of opinion that says that what a person does in private has no bearing on his public office. This says that character, morality and integrity are no longer important in the individual who aspires to or holds public office...
Either way, I have lots of company. Thanks in no small part to the commercial opportunities opened up by the VCR and the CD player, this decade has seen a flood of previously unreleased, unfinished or reworked art. Directors' cuts of movies from Nights of Cabiria to Natural Born Killers restore lost scenes; boxed sets of just about any recording artist you can think of--Why not the Zombies?--disgorge hours of studio outtakes. These have also been boom times for posthumous publication, with recent "new" work by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Mitchell; next year Ernest Hemingway will give...