Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the hubbub, some British financiers fret that Big Bang will eventually become a big bust for purely local firms. British investment houses, they note, are badly undercapitalized compared with their American and Japanese rivals. Britain's largest merchant bank, Morgan Grenfell, has a market capitalization of only $988 million, in contrast to Nomura's ($34 billion) or Salomon Brothers' ($6.6 billion). The worry is that unbridled competition will force many more old-line British houses to merge or go out of business. Says Ian Kerr, a British executive with Kidder, Peabody International: "The City of London has handed itself...
...moment ignore the tattle, forget the blurbs and look at the pictures. The hubbub of controversy is stilled in the silence that these disquieting portraits demand. Imputations of Wyeth's motives are lost in the dark nexus where passion meets craft. Speculation on the course of his relationship with Helga turns to fascination with the development of graphic ideas and emotions in studies for final works. In the first sketch for Overflow, Helga is a thin, pretty, sleeping girl; the suggestive lines idealize her. And yet she breathes with youth and possibility. When the series is fleshed out, weight...
...huge Hanover Room of downtown Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel late last week, the air was filled with hubbub--and a sense of desperation. A total of 31 public and private corporations had set up interviewing tables to try to fill some 2,000 white-collar jobs, ranging from electrical engineer to word processor to bank teller, in the city's central business district. Some of the vacancies had gone unfilled for six months or more...
...whom are prostitutes--will unanimously refrain from having sex. The only feasible option we have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them. Proposals of this kind go against the grain of what society deems decent, and so provoke a good deal of hubbub. What people seem to have forgotten, though, is that AIDS victims are going to die, period. While an AIDS carrier may not be suffering from syptoms himself, he may be endangering his neighbors...
...would think that an American winning a Peace Prize would cause unanimous national congratulations, but such has not been the case. Why all the hubbub? Many conservatives have pointed out that Dr. Chazov, who will jointly receive the award with Lown, is a member of the Soviet Central Committee and one of the Kremlin leadership's personal physicians. Lack of knowledge of this fact can be excused, but now it's well-known. It seems even more pointless at this late date constantly to mention the obvious lack of influence the Soviet people have on formulation of their country...