Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dream is illusory. David and Harriet take on the burden of four children in six years with insufficient means and experience. They survive mainly with money from David's parents and help from Harriet's mother Dorothy. Still, they manage to achieve the largest part of their dream, a huge house that becomes the place for the family to congregate...
...Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and including his Oscar-nominated script for The Verdict (1982), "forced on me the issue of plot." He acknowledged to friends that Glengarry was the first of his plays to have anything resembling a workable second act. But Speed-the-Plow has two huge holes in its narrative. First, the effort to persuade Mantegna's character to believe in the book takes place almost entirely offstage. Second, right up to the end it is impossible to tell whether the book is brilliance or bilge. If it is the former, then the ending is uncommercially tragic...
...that the industry as a whole should post operating profits of more than $2 billion in 1988, predicts David Sylvester of Kidder Peabody. But not all airlines are equally profitable. American, Delta, and United are well into the black, but Eastern and Pan Am are still racking up huge losses...
...clear to me that Bruin general manager Harry Sinden did his team and its fans, even us Johnny-come-latelies, a huge disservice by consenting to play the game Sunday night. It could well cost Boston the series. Moreover, it represented a move that was against the best competitive interests of his team. In pro sports, especially in the semifinal round of the playoffs, sabotaging your team's chances of winning is unforgivable...
...House subcommittee is pursuing a separate suspicion -- that Milken and other Drexel Burnham employees may have taken huge profits at the expense of the firm's customers. Congressional documents show that on several occasions partnerships involving Drexel Burnham employees bought up large stakes in the firm's new junk-bond issues, then sold them at a profit. At the same time, some of the firm's clients reportedly found that their access to the issues was sharply limited...