Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible disappointment in the GOP race, especially for those in the Northeast, is Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), who early in the campaign was expected to make a strong showing, but has since faded into the pack of candidates...
...issue there was near unanimity. "There will be more layoffs," said Perrin Long, an analyst at Lipper Analytical Services, which studies securities firms. "The brokerages could run much leaner than they are now." Concurred Jack Barbanel, senior vice president of Gruntal & Co.: "The message is clear -- Wall Street is tightening its hatches." Long predicts that as many as 24,000 securities-industry employees will lose their jobs over the next twelve to 18 months -- and even that, he believes, is not enough. If Wall Street hopes to stay profitable in the troubled times ahead, Long thinks a safer number...
...witching season in the good town of Cambridge. Trees are turning Halloween colors. Pumpkins gape from neighborhood porch stoops and all the folks on the streets you find, from the youngest ragamuffins to the oldest, tenured curmudgeons, are sporting their naughtiest Jack Nicholson smiles...
...wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...
NORMAN Mailer put a new twist on the ex-con-as-artist theme a while back when he got felon and author Jack Henry Abbott released from prison and back on the streets, where he killed again. Although director John Hancock is a little less daring in his treatment of the theme, his Weeds is one weird melange of a movie...