Word: hocks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...JAPAN'S REFORM FAILS--AGAIN The country is in its second decade of economic paralysis. Consumers aren't buying much. Bankers aren't lending much. The government is deep in hock. The only hope of escaping this mess is represented by Japan's newest Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, who is determined to administer economic shock therapy. Koizumi promised he would slash government spending, compel major banks to speed up disposal of bad loans--estimated at nearly $1 trillion--allow unprofitable companies to go bankrupt and restructure the economy to make it more market oriented...
First things first: it's pronounced Choy Hock. As in Tsui Hark, the man who for two decades has been Hong Kong cinema's pre-eminent creative force. His best movies are made with such verve and craft that the viewer's head practically explodes with the concentration they require, the pleasure they bring. And at 50, Tsui hasn't slowed up. Just the first two minutes of his new Time and Tide--the first Hong Kong film he has directed in five years--are breathlessly virtuosic, using slo-mo and rapid cuts and neck-swiveling pans to impart enough...
...roughly two schools of thought on money in politics - especially soft money in politics. The first is that it's evil - politicians spend too much time and make too many promises trying to raise enough of it, and the best way to get Washington's soul out of hock is to make politicians raise money the old-fashioned way - speaking to large crowds at $1,000-a-plate dinners...
...might have called it, say, "HDTV." And you would have been right. Except HDTV is probably not in your living room. As with the De Lorean car, the mere existence of a $5,000 or $10,000 TV set isn't sufficient to persuade consumers to go into hock to get a sharper look at Dennis Franz's butt. Instead, people have stuck with pretty much the same box they had in 1980, with less wood paneling but more channels and more whatsits plugged...
...third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep. And another thing: don't get all fluttery, high minded and patronizing just because people look different--that was your parents, that's not you. People are people. And still another thing: don't get yourself in hock to attend a college that isn't much good. It's an education just to leave home and go someplace where people don't understand you and don't even want to. And one more thing: advice is no substitute for personal experience, unfortunately...