Word: glassing
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...Also, if you love trendy pop culture icons, the movie features 50 “Curtis Jackson” Cent doing his best impression of a real drug dealer. My favorite part was watching Fitty’s head get blown off and seeing his body crash through a glass window to the floor below. Sorry for the spoiler, but I’m assuming you won’t get around to renting this one. “Righteous Kill” is a tragic unity of two great actors that accomplishes nothing for either their careers...
...strength of the collection, however, lies not only in the individual works themselves, which include time-honored masterpieces and works completed as recently as this year, but in its innovative groupings. With so much art crammed into one building—hanging, propped up against the walls, in glass cases, and standing in the middle of the rooms—it is conceivable that the exhibit could very well have deteriorated into a crowded jumble of art and artifacts. However, the careful placement of the works allows viewers to easily comprehend them in small clusters and then, if they wish...
...didn't have commercial banks ready to step in, you'd have a vastly bigger crisis today," says Jim Leach, a Republican former Congressman from Iowa (and current Barack Obama supporter) whose name is on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that repealed Glass-Steagall. Leach is no neutral observer, and there can be no proving that Glass-Steagall repeal has made the world safer. But amid the predictable debate now underway about how much new financial regulation is needed, it just doesn't make a very convincing scapegoat for the crisis...
...really interesting ones. In the aftermath of the savings and loan collapse and a banking-industry near-miss there was a flurry of activity aimed at keeping banks healthy, not by shoving them back into their New Deal box but by reasserting their central role in the financial system. Glass-Steagall repeal can best be understood as part of this effort. So was 1994 legislation allowing interstate branching. This was a bipartisan movement: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley legislation passed the Senate 90-8 (Joe Biden was for it; John McCain didn't vote, but had supported the bill...
...conveyed "modern," colorful melamine bowls and plates became mainstays in kitchens across the country. Unfortunately, Melmac tableware was prone to scratches and stains and so the dishes fell out of favor by the 1970s, as more resilient household plastics were phased in and families returned to ceramic, china and glass-made dishes...