Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the exception of Dowling and Jack Calbourne (who triumphed, 3-1), the rest of the racquetmen blanked their opponents...
...Anthropologists! Anthropologists!" The Far Side is not for those who think Dagwood and Blondie stretch the limits of wackiness. Two pilots sit atop a large naked infant on a runway. Says one flyer to the control tower: "Fuel . . . check. Lights . . . check. Oil pressure . . . check. We've got clearance. O.K., Jack, let's get this baby off the ground...
...acquisition bids has long been recognized as a legitimate exercise in which professional traders assume much of the risk inherent in trading stocks involved in takeover battles. But Boesky's illegal use of secret tips on takeovers has tarnished the reputations of all arbitragers and ordinary stock traders. Says Jack Steele, recently retired dean of the University of Southern California business school: "Where we're at today is really no different from the age of the robber barons." Agrees Robert Hanisee, president of Seidler Amdec Securities, a Los Angeles brokerage: "The popular perception among investors is that this kind...
...problem facing inner-city youths, however, has been that they seem to reap little of the economic benefit even when the job market is expanding. Congressman Jack Kemp, a Republican from upstate New York, is a leading advocate of urban enterprise zones, which would use tax incentives to encourage businesses to provide jobs in depressed urban areas. Others feel that it is necessary to create work programs that will draw young blacks away from the inner cities, where the underclass culture makes it extremely difficult to break out of the poverty cycle. Nicholas Lemann, a journalist with the Atlantic, describes...
...defense witnesses include Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist, who argues that a single bullet could not (as the official version states) have struck both Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, and others who give evidence suggesting that Oswald was the patsy in a conspiracy, possibly involving Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby. The trial includes a detailed examination of the famous film taken by Abraham Zapruder, including the horrific frames in which the President's head literally explodes from a gunshot...