Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catastrophic health care and nursing homes. State officials also blame some unexpected consequences of the 1986 federal tax-reform law. Late in 1986 taxpayers rushed to sell securities and property before capital-gains taxes jumped from 20% to a current maximum of 33%. Some state planners rosily assumed this high revenue would continue. Cigarette smokers will pay for the miscalculation...
...movie's tone is high-pitched and precise. Everybody plays to the max, especially Steenburgen, sweet magnolia condescension dripping from every elongated syllable, and Hunter, crazy for acceptance, clinging to Delmount, desperately fanning the summer heat off Elain's body. They serve well this fable about the need to realize that some dreams are better off not coming true, at least in a town where the local tramp is the wisest soul around and the pouting princess is revealed as a frog who needs to put a stethoscope to her own porcelain heart...
...official strategy for evading an answer is to focus resolutely on the high-minded events of 1789, like the Declaration of Rights, with its ideals of liberty, equality, and the sovereignty of the people. As for the blood that flowed thereafter -- the September Massacres of 1792, the Terror of 1793, and the 1793-94 uprising of the Vendee in which 400,000 died -- the less said the better. The play-it-safe politics of the commemoration is aimed at creating at least the illusion of ideological harmony, the same strategy that has sparked Mitterrand's recent political success...
Well, not everyone can. In addition to show-business types, many of the buyers are youthful entrepreneurs who started out in their garages and now control high-tech companies worth tens of millions of dollars. The rest of the money comes from overseas. "I've sold houses to the royal family of Saudi Arabia," says Nelson, who glides around town in a yellow Rolls-Royce Corniche. "Also to the emissary for the Sultan of Brunei, two crown princes in Europe and three Japanese billionaires whose names I can't pronounce." Many foreign buyers are looking for a stable investment, since...
...with more than 8% of the 260,000 employees who worked in the U.S. securities industry before the collapse. And despite the cost cutting, a fresh wave of gloom rolled through investment houses last week. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average surged 72.40 points to a post-crash high of 2409.46, blue- chip firms announced setbacks that ranged from layoffs to plunging profits. Says Perrin Long, who follows the securities industry for Lipper Analytical Services in Manhattan: "A new reality...