Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moderate Democrat. "No more whining that we don't get enough money from state capitals and from Washington," says the former prosecutor. "No more looking for the cavalry to bail us out." When he took the reins in 1992, Philadelphia carried a $200 million deficit and municipal bonds with junk- level ratings. Its citizenry, meanwhile, was financially anemic from 19 tax increases in 11 years. Fifteen months later, Rendell had engineered the city's first surplus since 1987 without a tax boost...
Obsession contains a wealth of fascinating shop talk about the garment industry: endlessly fluctuating deals, shifting alliances and enmities, financial escapades of the riskiest sort. Klein has endured his share of rough times, especially when, with the help of Michael Milken, he issued some junk bonds. Only the generosity of Klein's billionaire friend David Geffen -- a $50 million investment in 1992 -- kept the firm afloat...
BACK IN THE PALEOCAPITALISTIC ERA, as long ago as 10 years, anthropologists studying the breeding, feeding and plumage patterns of Wall Street concentrated on carnivores -- called gunslingers -- grownup frat boys in yellow ties and red suspenders who peddled junk bonds, drove BMWs and bought $2 million co-ops on Manhattan's East Side. Forget them: today they're fuddled old greedsters sitting around in their East Hampton beach houses wondering what happened...
Concepcion's speech quickens, and then she pauses to apply some more paint to a rock before resuming. "Even people on the street have it easy," Concepcion says. "They get junk food from the garbage cans and are satisfied just because they are brainwashed. I feel discouraged that American people don't want to face reality and have never suffered, get everything easy and that...
...blooded American slapstick jokes, formulaic characters, and racial stereotypes. Everything is familiar and expected, kind of like an old armchair with beer stains that has been sitting in the family basement forever--not particularly attractive or inviting, but no one ever bothers to move it to the junk heap...