Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bought for $2 million in 1983; expanded the dairy farm on Sydmonton Court, his estate in Hampshire, and planted 50,000 trees in an effort to reverse soil erosion; and with his wife, Soprano (and Phantom Star) Sarah Brightman, 27, acquired a nine-room duplex apartment on the 60th floor of Manhattan's Trump Tower, as well as a seaside villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the south of France. He has indulged his hobbies of collecting pre-Raphaelite art and 18th century English furniture, added to his cave of fine wines, and bought Sarah a bracelet with...
...point if you try to watch one chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew (the phrase is from a country-funk song lyric in praise of downward mobility: "It's coffee in the pot and a dirty sugar spoon/ it's towels on the floor of a dirty bathroom/ and a smell like me and a smell like you/ all mixed together in a Sleazy Street stew...
...most traders, though, the central bankers were quietly baiting a so-called bear trap, in which they aimed to punish speculators who had been reaping profits by consistently betting on the dollar's downfall. They secretly agreed to launch a dollar-buying binge when the currency hit a floor price, possibly at 120 yen. At first only the Bank of Japan came to the rescue. Then all at once last Monday, moneymen from central banks around the world -- including the Federal Reserve -- got on the phones to place buy orders...
...like the man who came to Washington eight years earlier. To illustrate the point, Baker tells a story. "By Tuesday afternoon of the summit with Gorbachev, we were all worn out, and, to be honest, it had not gone all that well. Gorbachev was spewing facts all over the floor. The President was down. 'Howard,' he said, 'I had better hit the books tonight.' 'No,' I said, 'I wouldn't do that. Be Ronald Reagan. Remember who you are, what you believe and where you want to go. Let us take care of the facts.' Wednesday morning the President took...
That, in the long run, is the ethical dilemma of the Hollywood junket. Our intrepid reporter face down in the gutter: He left his heart and GPA in San Francisco and his dinner on the floor of his hotel room...