Word: fritter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poignant cry of the violated heart. And though Britain's Alan Ayckbourn does not rank with these playwrights, he, too, has his ambient obsession. Again and again (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and now Absent Friends) he dwells on the crimping horizons and absurdist conventional fritter of suburban life...
Tough Job. That should be good news for the 384,000 Teamsters who stand to collect pensions from the fund and who have watched their leaders fritter away a substantial amount of its assets. An examination of the fund's latest annual report, filed with the Government in December 1976, reveals a lopsided investment portfolio with $108 million in cash, $193 million-worth of common stocks and debt securities and a huge $833 million in real estate and mortgages. Equitable's tough job will be to change those investments so that real estate and mortgages represent no more...
Whether or not they are happy, it seems almost an axiom that the rapidly rich fritter few hours frivolously. They mostly abhor time-consuming activities like heading Kiwanis drives, playing golf, drinking till dawn, and being sick in bed. Though they often complain about their limited playtime, almost all the nouveaux share a drive to accumulate assets beyond any expectation of liquidating the lucre...
...value against the dollar in the past year, is actually undervalued. Says the research director of one of London's biggest merchant banks: "The North Sea will give sterling holders plenty of reason for encouragement if the government can only convince them it won't fritter it away in foolish increases in public spending. Once that message gets across, I wouldn't be surprised to see sterling firm up immediately...
...problem here, as in Earthquake, is that the scriptwriters feel obligated to fritter away time on people's banal problems. Bad marriages and love affairs naturally come apart, good ones grow better as the flames leap higher. Obvious cheaters and other meanies (the fire started because Builder Holden skimped on Architect Newman's safety specifications) get their comeuppance, while individuals of quiet integrity win a chance to prove their virtue...