Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel this side of Lucky Jim), Bradbury is also a hard-working critic, a professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia and, at 55, a man disinclined to suppress the cholers of middle age. Unsent Letters consists of 18 imaginary, therefore utterly forthright, responses to his junk mail...
...programming)) like Black Entertainment Television and CNN," says John Malone, president of TCI, "they wouldn't exist, because no one else wanted to put up the money." Cable operators, they add, seek the best mix of programming to attract the largest number of subscribers. "We won't carry junk just because we have an interest in it," says ATC Chairman Trygve Myhren...
...Beverly Hills-based Milken, who built the junk-bond industry almost from scratch and amassed a personal fortune estimated at more than $500 million, is attracting plenty of attention these days -- much of it in the form of official probes. For 18 months, a federal grand jury in Manhattan has been investigating Milken and other executives of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, reportedly on charges that they helped Ivan Boesky carry out his insider-trading schemes. Milken and his employer have denied any such wrongdoing...
...House subcommittee is pursuing a separate suspicion -- that Milken and other Drexel Burnham employees may have taken huge profits at the expense of the firm's customers. Congressional documents show that on several occasions partnerships involving Drexel Burnham employees bought up large stakes in the firm's new junk-bond issues, then sold them at a profit. At the same time, some of the firm's clients reportedly found that their access to the issues was sharply limited...
Where else but in whiffle ball could you throw a curve ball that would rival the junk of Bert Blyleven. What other game could you bat lefty, even though you were a born righthander, and send the ball screaming across the street...