Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite a while. All the articles included in their brochure warned that a GWAR show would turn my stomach. Mainstream Rolling stone ignored them, while the more clued in Spin thought they were hilarious, pushing mass culture's rampant images of sex and violence to an absolutely nauseating hilt. Their album was called America Must Be Destroyed, their forthcoming video Phallus in wonderland...
...fact, Bok says, between the usual spring-time load of meetings to attend and faculty positions to fill, not to mention the host of dinners and receptions being held in his honor, he is "booked to the hilt through graduation...
...firms went on an unprecedented credit binge. Commercial IOUs soared from $829 billion in 1980 to $2 trillion last year, enabling corporations to finance a record number of buyouts, restructurings and stock buybacks. But with the economy on the verge of a recession and many businesses leveraged to the hilt, companies are struggling to shape up and reduce debt loads. "Corporations are discovering that debt is a double-edged sword," says Edward Tyburczy, a senior vice president of Standard & Poor's, the debt- rating agency. "Those who lived and grew by the sword are now in danger of dying...
...companies have other ways to restructure their debt, notably by using corporate stock. Firms in relatively good financial health can raise money by offering new shares on the market. Mr. Coffee, which was leveraged to the hilt as the result of a 1987 buyout, was able to wipe out almost half its LBO debt through a new issue last May. Another technique is the debt-for-equity swap, in which corporations retire their bonds by giving lenders corporate stock. That strategy was employed by furniture maker Interco, which last week announced that it will swap 95% of the stock...
Bill Cosby plays an overworked widower on the brink of a promotion that will finally ensure a secure future for his children. Right before everything is finalized, though, he dies in a freak accident, his house mortgaged to the hilt and his family virtually destitute...