Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debtor, and the stock market dropped more than 500 points in one day, symbolically if not literally ending the avaricious '80s. Mayer patiently brings the reader up to speed on the intricacies of trading stocks, bonds, commodities and imaginative financial instruments with names like STRIPS, zero-coupon bonds and "Heaven & Hell" warrants...
...reporters or regional auditors or salesmen with the Southeast territory -- came to roost at the end of the week in Atlanta precisely because it was the Gate City to the South: we needed the airport. They used to say that someone who died in the South might go to heaven, but he'd have to change planes in Atlanta...
...best specimens of barbecued beef, chopped pork and baby back ribs are at Aleck's Barbeque Heaven, a tiny tumbledown shack that slices up lean, tender meat flavored with counterpoints of woodsy smoke and black pepper, complemented by a thin, brassy sauce unmarred by sweetness. Runners-up include the Auburn Avenue Rib Shack, in the historic black downtown area of Sweet Auburn, and Harold's Barbeque, the site of the best-quality meats, the most comfortable dining room and, sadly, the stickiest, sweetest sauce...
...interview is reminded that he must dress both down (there is always a raging egalitarian on the committee who resents Oxbridge college ties) and up (someone else inevitably believes there is a correlation between white shirts and intelligence). "Of course you cannot please everyone," Bradbury counsels, "but for heaven's sake, Messmer, at least...
...garbled voice crackled incoherently over the public address system. The words sounded like "Feng-tu Ta-ti." How strange, I mused, that the conductor would invoke the legendary rebel turned emperor of the Ch'in dynasty through whom the Kings of Hell reported their doings to heaven. Just to be sure, I asked a fellow straphanger what our Charon of the Underworld had said. "Forty-second next," he answered...