Word: inked
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Often unnoticed are the ripple effects that come when businesses go under: the failure of the small sawmill that shakes the economy of a rural community; the entrepreneur who amasses only red ink in return for risking his capital and decides to play it smart next time and stick his cash in a high-yielding money-market fund; the worthy new enterprise that cannot afford to borrow and expand and therefore loses market share and stagnates, perhaps eventually being driven out of business altogether by some tough and well-heeled foreign competitor from, say, Japan. Says Purdue University Economist William...
...beauty and truth of the butterfly, one had to kill it and mount it--and therefore lose much of its truth and beauty. Similarly, the writer's problem is that we must take ideas and images out of the flow of events, and mount them on lifeless ink and paper. Our daily challenge as newspaper reporters is not--as the article suggested--to "take events out of the flow of reality and to protray them two-dimensionally," but rather to keep the events ALIVE as we pin them down in words...
...firm that makes tiles, wall decorations an other surface coverings. Inflation began taking a severe toll in the recession year of 1974. BIW's fixed-price contracts did not allow for rapidly rising costs, and losses mounted sharply. On top of a $10 mllion run of red ink, BIW lost major defense contracts in the early 1970s. I 1975 new management took over the company and brought in John F. Sullivan Jr., a former building-materials executive to head...
...eighth straight year ?since the commercial theater snapped out of its early-'70s slump ?the Great White Way is coated with happy black ink...
...budget slashing efforts were nowhere near deep enough to meet its goal of a $42.5 billion federal deficit for fiscal 1982, or to make possible a balanced budget by 1984, as Reagan promised. Because the Government would have to borrow heavily to finance the growing flow of red ink, interest rates would tend to stay high...