Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the growing U.S. hubbub about acquisitive foreigners, a fact worth remembering is the importance of America's own trillion-dollar foreign holdings abroad. Any crimping of foreign investment in the U.S. would invite similar measures against American investors elsewhere -- the equivalent, that is, of trade protectionism. Ironically enough, overseas worries about rising American protectionism toward imports is a prime reason for many foreign manufacturers' desire to buy physically into the U.S. market...
This may sound like a sweaty hubbub, one of those desperately contrived comedies that want to have their overproduced action sequences and devour them satirically too. But May is a writer of scripts that are all sneaky asides, no obvious zingers allowed. She is not one to let her voice be drowned out by either a lot of exploding hardware or the buzz about Ishtar's delays and cost overruns. One finally cannot resist warming to a movie in which people are astonished to find out that Gaddafi is the name of a man not a country but are strangely...
...after all the crushed-hope hubbub had died down, the squad had little choice but to show up for duty Monday afternoon at Northeastern's Parsons Field...
...First Lady added to the hubbub with a doozy of a double entendre that may have been an innocent reference to her childhood but was interpreted as a parting shot at Regan. Appearing at a convention in Washington of the American Camping Association, she told the audience of her girlhood camping experiences: "I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert...
Many experts believe the really blatant cases of insider profiteering are rare, despite the hubbub. "The vast majority of the people on Wall Street are not doing it," says Edward Brodsky, a Manhattan securities lawyer. "Those who are, however, infect the integrity of the entire marketplace." Maintaining that integrity has been a difficult challenge in the deregulated, hurly-burly Wall Street of the 1980s, where traders have been tempted to use insider tips to maintain their competitive edge...