Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People are becoming as cavalier about junk fax mail as they are about junk mail at home," says Gillis. "How many letters do you throw away...
...evaporate during a recession. Of 795 firms surveyed by Zacks Investment Research that have released fourth-quarter results, 51% had worse-than-expected earnings. Another factor depressing Wall Street is the pervasive feeling that the 1980s gold rush of takeovers and leveraged buyouts has finally subsided, largely because the junk-bond market is moribund and banks have grown leery of financing major new deals...
Nonetheless, the Uptown controversy underscores a growing concern that big corporations have targeted minority communities as lucrative markets for such products as tobacco, liquor and even junk food. A survey in Baltimore found that 20% of billboard advertising in white communities was devoted to smoking and drinking. In black neighborhoods 76% of the billboards promoted such vices...
...chairman of Gillian Group, a leading dress manufacturer: "After a while, it became a contest of wills and ego. Campeau came to feel that it was a game and he had to win the prize." But the price of victory was a debt load that included $2.25 billion of junk bonds that pay as much as 17.75% interest...
...49ers did manage to squeak out an 81-77 overtime win. To watch them celebrate, you'd think the finger-pointing, junk-talking Long Beach hoopsters had knocked off Tarkanian's UNLV squad, a big west rival...