Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tired of all the useless junk on the Web, what you need is a search engine...
...lower-risk alternative is investing in real estate through publicly traded companies known as Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs. These stocks earned a nasty reputation in the '70s and '80s, when REITs loaded up with debt and used the proceeds to invest largely in the higher-yielding debt--junk--of developers. REITs collapsed when the developers went bust after building too many skyscrapers...
...every year--sit down in front of a TV and watch the first round. All seven hours. Not only do you have to flatten your derriere (I recommend "Buns of Steel") so you can sit for extended periods of time, you'll also be eating seven hours worth of junk food...
...programming promises to be well produced and occasionally diverting, in an info-junk food sort of way. But quality, or lack of it, may have little to do with the new venture's fate. With dozens of channels fighting for a limited amount of space on the cable dial, a fuzzily conceived network like Eye on People lacks the gotta-have-it factor. Indeed, only about 2 million cable homes will get it initially. That figure could grow to 10 million by year's end, if the network's optimistic projections hold true. But even at that, the number...
...Philadelphia insurance man, LeBow earned an engineering degree at Drexel University and launched his own computer company. A few years later, he had to rescue it with a financial restructuring. In short order, bailouts became his business, backed by the infamous junk bonds of Michael Milken in his heyday...