Word: inked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should one suppose that these are dreaming connoisseurs who have just relinquished the ink block and the brush to dabble in the art of the namban, or round-eyed barbarian. Shigeki Kameyama, representing the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo, last week bought, among other things, Picasso's The Mirror at $26.4 million. The week before, he had also purchased De Kooning's Interchange at $20.68 million and a Brice Marden drawing at $500,000 at Sotheby's. Kameyama is known to other dealers as "Oddjob," after Goldfinger's hat-flinging chauffeur...
...Massachusetts, Dukakis has become an object of political scorn. The Governor who boasted repeatedly during the 1988 presidential campaign of balancing ten budgets in a row is drowning in red ink. His credibility is shot. Legislators he once controlled dismiss him as irrelevant. Rarely has a lustrous reputation sunk so far so fast...
...existing student-volunteer recycling program in Harvard's dorms does not turn a profit. The bulk of the paper collected in bins in dorm entryways, baled by student volunteers and driven to recyclers, is newspaper, which is difficult to de-ink and produces low quality recycled paper...
...wait, there's still Secretary Samuel Pierce and the HUD scandal. Savings and loans continue to hemorrhage red ink. And after 10 years of investigation, the Wedtech scandal has finally put Edwin Meese-chum Robert Wallach behind bars...
...inquiry, into more than 60 colleges and universities nationwide, reaches back at least five years and concerns all financial transactions in the institutions regarding tuition, faculty salaries and financial aid. Since August, much ink and breath has been spent justifying only the practice of jointly setting financial aid packages for undergraduates...