Word: junks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather; special effects can look chintzy onscreen. And actors! They cost the moon, and their bodies aren't elastic enough to perform the comic contortions that Daffy Duck can give you with the wave of an animator's pen. So here's a tip for the '90s, Hollywood: junk the live-action movie. Just make cartoons...
...course President Bok would have to guarantee personally that the Harvard Junk Bond Fund Drive would not take over any company that does business with South Africa. Otherwise, Fonda and the Protest Fund Drive would have to come and picket them...
...Junk Bond Fund Drive. Derek Bok could lead a group of aspiring student financiers to Wall Street with enough of Harvard's endowment to buy out the Trump Shuttle. After renaming it the Harvard Shuttle, and promising that it will run on time, they could build a runway behind Soldier's Field...
...loan operating even though the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) in San Francisco had found enough bad loans and shaky business practices to shut it down. After Keating purchased Lincoln in 1984, he switched from investing in safe, single-family mortgages to go-go deals in raw land, junk bonds and huge development projects like the $900-a-night Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz...
Still, we're paying for a mountain of foreign goods that will be junk in ten years with land, buildings and the rights to The Three Stooges -- things that are eternal (well, maybe not the buildings). We're like the Manhattan Indians, who had little immediate need for the island and couldn't resist the trinkets...