Word: franticness
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They are known in Sacramento as "crunch weeks," when California's assembly and senate face deadlines for moving legislation toward passage. Last week, as a cutoff approached for voting bills out of committee and onto the floor, the most frantic spot in town was Room 4202 in the capitol building, the hearing room of the assembly's critical ways and means committee. Day after day, the chamber was aswarm with legislators, their aides and California's highly visible corps of lobbyists...
Companies, however, are not the only frantic borrowers. Several board members pointed out that Americans today generally owe more and save less. Nonmortgage consumer debt is nearly 19% of disposable income, an all-time high. The rate of personal savings has fallen from 6% of disposable income at the end of 1984 to 3.7% in the third quarter of this year. Depleted savings coupled with increased debt could cause a slowdown in consumer spending, which could be particularly bad for retailers during the important Christmas season. That could damage the entire economy...
Those moves were the latest in the spectacular spate of mergers, acquisitions and takeover wars that have transformed the U.S. economy in recent months and become matters of grave concern in American boardrooms, courtrooms and legislatures. In 1985 companies were acquired, wholly or in part, at the frantic rate of eleven a day. When the dollar value of those deals is finally totted up, it is certain to surpass the record $125 billion reached in 1984. Says Democratic Representative Timothy Wirth, who chairs a House subcommittee that has been studying acquisitions: "These mergers and takeovers are having as profound...
...against painterly norms before World War I and bitterly sardonic in their attacks on society after it. These artists rehearse the last phase of the exaltations and terrors of German romanticism. They are seen, by all but a tiny minority of Germans, as mad, bad and dangerous to know: frantic orphans of the fatherland, nut eaters, Nietzscheans, stargazers, communards, Spartacists, reciting overloud yeas to nature and nays to society. Among them are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, George Grosz and Otto...
...actors have turned the tables on the Inspector by speaking a language he cannot understand. Frantic, he yells to his chief over the phone, "If this isn't free expression, I don't know what is." Despite his anger, or perhaps because of it, the Inspector himself unintentionally catches Dogg and forgets English. He is left struggling to explain himself to his chief over the phone...