Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over. A $200 billion budget deficit, says Brian Smith, a newsletter publisher in Alexandria, Va., would be roughly equal to the profits of all U.S. corporations, and nothing seems to make the deficit shrink. Said Albert O. Nicholas, president of the $1 billion Nicholas Fund in Milwaukee: "The economy isn't all that robust, and companies aren't coming up with the earning increases or even maintaining the earnings to support the stock-market euphoria that came about because of declining interest rates...
...acceded to her masochistic desires. Then Frank taught Jeffrey a lesson. He smeared lipstick on his own face, kissed Jeffrey hard on the mouth and beat him senseless. Sandy responds to such revelations like a child at the end of a nightmare fairy tale: "It's a strange world, isn...
...sons of H.L. Hunt, who once made a living as a cardplayer. But this time the Hunts' luck ran out. When the silver price plummeted to $10.20 per oz. two months later, the Hunts were suddenly left with a debt of $1.5 billion. Shrugged Bunker Hunt: "A billion dollars isn't what it used...
Geller, a 66-year-old bachelor, doesn't have what you might think of as a radio personality. He isn't just taciturn but a misanthrope and the dead opposite of a local booster. He calls Gloucester "the end of the world" and says he would rather have caught on in New York City. In Gloucester, he says, there is nothing to do but work or have sex. "I don't have a sex partner," he adds gloomily, "so I work...
Informed of this opinion, Geller raises his eyebrows. He continues to sit in the dark, an attending slave to the station or the music, it isn't clear which. His arms are folded across his chest, his shock of gray hair stands up off his scalp, his lower lip is rolled out. "So?" he asks finally. Another long pause. "Does it mean he wants me to drop dead...