Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turkish pasha who makes love only to the dying. Exotic details or metaphors not only impart a flavor of strangeness to the book, but also send a reader scurrying back and forth through the pages, trying to remember where he has come across a hand with two thumbs, a grave shaped like a goat or a fruit that resembles a live fish...
...according to IDD Information Services, a Manhattan research firm, 143 companies were taken private in buyouts worth $91 billion, in contrast to 105 deals worth $36 billion during the same period of 1987. These transactions are enriching shareholders and buyout specialists, but the takeovers could be causing grave damage to U.S. industry. Never before has debt been substituted for shareholders' equity on such a huge scale. No one knows how these highly leveraged companies will fare in the next recession...
...behalf of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, we wish to your attention a recent incident which may have grave implications for the state of freedom of expression at Harvard...
...Ingmar Bergman were dead, he might be rolling in his grave over the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club's production of Red Noses. But since he's alive, he'd more likely by rolling in the aisles...
Flote vies with the penitents for the benediction of the Church, personified by the Archbishop Monselet (Panayotis Agapitos), who ultimately favors Flote to spite his grave assistant, Father Toulon (Stefan Howells). Monselet is a purple-clad fop whose sole concern is for his own safety, and Agapitos' performance is as biting as it is hysterical...