Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judging from the grotesquely baroque poster and the huge press hype, however, Luna should shock and titillate its jaded audiences with graphic sex and perverted emotions. A film about incest should fascinate, challenge or perhaps disgust its viewers...
...reason Harvard can attract the kind of huge gifts it is counting on during its five-year, $250 million Harvard Campaign is its "good aura of investment management," Putnam says. "Alumni will only give when they think their money will be managed well--people will set up trust funds for Yale," putting a gift in a private manager's hands and sending Yale the interest, he says. But he adds that Yale's "aura" is worse than it deserves...
...both the warehouse and the bank, there were countless errors of both bookkeeping and judgment. Although short on capital, the Carters unwisely launched a massive expansion of the warehouse. From 1975 through 1977, they borrowed nearly $10 million to buy a huge new peanut sheller and enormous supplies of raw peanuts. But from the beginning, the warehouse consistently sold peanuts it was supposed to be holding as collateral for the loan. At one point in the spring of 1976, there were no peanuts at all on hand for two months, while the warehouse owed N.B.G. $1.1 million...
...junta promised to hold elections, possibly as early as next year, and to use the huge coffee and cotton plantations that occupy the bulk of the country's arable acreage for land reform. It ordered an investigation into the fate of 276 people who "disappeared" during Romero's reign. It pledged to form close ties with Nicaragua's new revolutionary government and to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The junta also begged El Salvador's leftist guerrillas to lay down their arms and join in building a "just society...
...brokerage house back offices, where the huge volumes of shares traded had to be processed by hand, the working hours extended from early in the morning until well into the night. Some Wall Street firms sent their employees over to the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights for a few hours' sleep, then brought them back early the next morning. Barbers were brought in to shave them at their desks. "We were going all the time," says Fowler. "The older fellows used to work until 8 or 9 o'clock at night and then go to some speakeasy...