Word: hunker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basics and restructuring is paying off. Companies that make it into the Dow have reached middle age and can no longer grow as fast as they once did, so instead of wasting money in a futile attempt to live in the fast lane, they've figured out how to hunker down and accept their limitations. "They're squeezing out the profits," says Shelby Davis, manager of the New York Venture Fund...
That's because the mood is mixed. Even in a year of mostly favorable economic indicators -- a 2.6% inflation rate, 3.9% third-quarter growth, 5.6% unemployment for November -- a middle class fearful of losing its economic footing is plainly of a mind to hunker down. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 61% of those surveyed agreed with the statement that "the way things are today, people have to worry more about themselves and their families and less about helping others." That's a sentiment that speaks not so much of the Christmas season as of the dead of winter, marked...
...view that Clinton must hunker down in the center is shared by some members of the White House inner circle, notably domestic-policy adviser Bruce Reed and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Another camp, which includes deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and possibly adviser-in-chief Hillary Rodham Clinton, wants the President to consolidate his party base. If that means dwelling on civil rights, abortion rights and labor issues, it's probably an agenda that would appeal to a too narrow slice of the ever more conservative electorate. As a rough blueprint for post-apocalypse strategy, White House chief...
...Orlando Magic won't have too many empty seats this year in the expensive sections or in the very expensive sections. Baseball, if it ever gets under way in 1995, may suffer from depressed attendance. That will become clear only when moral indignation is confronted by the desire to hunker along the third-base line in the heat of a pennant race...
...other Rebel Highway films hunker down to more serious matters of turf marking and pubescent angst. Motorcycle Gang revs up real terror, as some wild ones kidnap a restless girl and her dad gets really mad. Roadracers is a hyperkinetic assault on good manners. Dragstrip Girl, a Cal-Mex remake of Rebel Without a Cause, stars Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Wood's daughter) as a bored teen lured by a handsome Chicano's threat and thrill. Confessions of a Sorority Girl uncovers the black-satin double-dealing of a teen queen spurned. Girls in Prison, with a script co-written...