Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Control tenants and putting the money in the City's coffers. The fattened City bureaucracy will decide how to spend the landlord's rent. Shall we extend this mentality to other groups? Some individuals of one race or ethnic group may spend too much money on drink, drugs, and junk food. Therefore, the City should take the money of all members of that race or ethnic group and spend it for them. For their own good, of course...
...just what the Treasury would like, since the rule would dissuade depositors from piling into a struggling institution that was offering impossibly high interest rates in a desperate bid for customers -- as often happened in Texas in the '80s. But the Treasury opened a wide loophole by failing to junk its too-big-to-fail doctrine. Under that policy, which is intended to prevent runs on deposits at large institutions, the government makes good on the entire account -- no matter how sizable -- that a major depositor holds in a large bank. That particularly worries small-town bankers, who fear customers...
Before his death, Hammer claimed the collection was worth $450 million, but most of it is junk: a mishmash of second- or third-rate work by famous names. The Rembrandt Juno is one of his weakest paintings -- large, flat and gross. The Rubens Adoration of the Shepherds may not be by Rubens at all; the Titian, not by Titian. The Leonardo pages, installed in a sort of dim mortuary chapel of their own, look ridiculously anticlimactic. The Impressionist work is as dull as could be. And, except for the Van Gogh and one early Gauguin, so is the more modern...
...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...
...Reagan years. The doomsayers seem to be savoring the chance to put priorities straight. "When the stock market crashed in '87, people thought the party was over -- the bar was still open but the band went home," says a young financier who has been laid off by the junk-bond department of a New York City investment bank. "Well, now the bar has closed...