Word: importantally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Bank Board needs as much money as possible from private investors, since the cost of bailing out the savings industry could run as high as $100 billion. Fortunately, the message seems to be getting out. In San Francisco last month, more than 350 potential investors attended a Bank Board...
Lurie, however, tips her hand, perhaps too early in the book, in the direction of heterosexual detente. The ex-husband, now remarried, is sketched as a decent fellow. Polly's closest friend, a cozy, catlike lesbian named Jeanne, shows herself, in the book's best characterization, to be malicious and...
Unfortunately, the revelations about Jones are not monstrous enough (she was erratic mentally and took drugs) to disguise the real intent of the novel's rather soapy second half: to find a nice, sexy, feminist man for Polly. Why is this soapy? Because the author misplaces the fine edge of...
The idea that every Cabinet officer must first be neat, trim and well pressed is backward. What is inside is more important than what is outside. The 6-ft. 2-in., 216-lb. Bennett bought his suits off the rack for less than $300 and sometimes got them pressed. "Enough...
"The most important thing in this city is not keeping your head so much as keeping your feet," he said. "Don't forget where you are from. Cling to your family and friends. Books and lessons from the past should be your roots. Heed that line from Alan Drury's...