Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hours, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Die Hard 2) opened in five weeks -- overloading even a male teenager's adrenaline system, it was thought -- and pulled in an average of $100 million. People will pay to see them, but studios don't want to pay the huge freight: $60 million or more, plus mammoth marketing campaigns. That's why this summer, except for the behemoth sequels, looks to be the most pacific in recent movie history. The moguls would rather crank out a succession of $12 million teen-targeted comedies and pray that one or two will...
Admissions officials say that unless the government provides more financial support, growing numbers of youngsters, particularly in the middle class, may not be able to attend the schools of their choice. "Low-income students get fully funded, and high-income students pay full freight, but it's the middle class that really has a hard time," says Rosovsky. Increasingly, institutions are divvying up their limited funds into skimpy partial-aid packages rather than full grants -- a practice known as gapping. This leads students to overextend themselves by taking on unadvisably large loans or excessively demanding jobs. Both Reed College...
...year prison term in Lompoc, Calif., for racketeering. The Persico forces are being challenged by 60 or so members loyal to Victor (Little Vic) Orena, the 57-year-old acting head who has been solidifying his grip on the family's businesses, ranging from gambling and prostitution to air freight, construction, catering and liquor distribution...
Create federal, state and local partnerships to build light-rail lines for urban areas lacking mass transit; support high-speed rail for passengers and freight. To help pay for it, boost taxes on parking and fuel. Such programs would reduce pollution, gridlock and dependence on oil imports...
...listeners have, and they laugh appreciatively. Yet many Democrats seem more comfortable with Harkin's familiar boilerplate than with Brown's jeremiad. "Whew! What a free market of ideas. And I sure respect the way he gets on that freight train of passion," said Sam Barone, executive director of Ohio's Democratic Party organization, after a Brown speech in Chicago. "But I'll tell you this, if he should dispatch a bunch of those pony- tailed Californians with earrings into Ohio or Indiana as volunteers, then he can just forget...