Word: impendingness
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, According to Bearing the Cross (Morrow; $19.95), King's many liaisons included one long-term affair that, writes Garrow, "increasingly became the emotional centerpiece" of his life. The FBI stumbled upon them in the course of investigating King's links to New York Attorney Stanley Levison, a former Communist who...
"It's not every day you meet a prince," said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-organizer of the undergraduate 350th celebration about the impending visit of Charles, Prince of Wales. "It certainly is a shame that more students will not be able to meet him personally.
Since so much insider trading is based on knowledge of impending corporate raids, the Boesky scandal heated up the public scrutiny of takeover artists. Economists and other thinkers wondered out loud whether greed had gotten out of control on Wall Street. "This is no longer free enterprise. It's predators...
Lawyer Daniel Bergstein, a senior partner in the New York firm of Finley Kumble Wagner, which has many Wall Street clients, notes that raiders and arbitragers can form what he calls an "unholy alliance." In a typical maneuver, they might have a mutual commitment to buy up stock in a...
Every so often these "language purists" warn us all of the impending danger of linguistic laxity and the proliferation of sub-standard forms into everyday speech. Much as Gerber wants to portray his desire for linguistic homogeneity and restrictiveness as consonant with the historic American values of equality and pluralism...