Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whom self-advertisement and self-esteem are more ecstatically united than Koons: he makes even Julian Schnabel, who recently proclaimed himself to be the nearest thing America has to Picasso, look like a paragon of self-effacement. He has done for narcissism what Michael Milken did for the junk bond...
John A. Thomas, the general superintendent of Beacon Construction, said it is possible that someone might have taken the block under the mistaken impression that it was junk...
...line from the film Wall Street. For Charles Keating Jr., the former head of the failed Lincoln Savings & Loan, greed could be good for over 500 years in jail and $250 million in penalties. Keating was found guilty of racketeering and fraud by a federal jury. Meanwhile, imprisoned junk-bond king Michael Milken was released to a halfway house...
Clinton's priorities -- which remain basically intact -- but there was little supporting data. Experts like Representative Leon Panetta and Alice Rivlin (whom Clinton has tapped for the two top slots at his budget office) derided the plan as unsound, and Ross Perot ridiculed Clinton for a "a bunch of junk numbers that don't compute." Perot's criticism dovetailed perfectly with Republican claims that Clinton was a tax-and-spend liberal, and the Democrat's standing in the polls sank precipitously...
...life, a parabola of supreme artistry and self-destruction, was, as she says, up a little bit, then down. Way down. Her last dire days, her body racked with junk and her voice cracked like thawing ice, have been rued and romanticized. When she died in 1959, the superstructure of the legend was already raised: the instinctive jazz talent, full of early genius, snuffed out by racism, callow commercialism and self-indulgence, her best work far behind...