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...mail advertisement, which listed the date, location and ticket-purchasing information for the concert, is what Internet users call a "Spam," junk or advertising mail sent out to a wide audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass E-Mail Causes Outrage | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

...independent film studio known for producing movies (Last of the Dogmen, for example) that comparatively few people went to see but a studio that owns considerable cash and a quartet of television stations; 3) a controlling interest in the Home Shopping Network, which sells, well, a lot of junk (the company's sales dropped 11.5% over the first nine months of 1995, to $730 million, compared with the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DILLER DOING IT HIS WAY | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Those setbacks were not isolated incidents in the supercharged stock market that has made IPOs the hottest way to raise money in the 1990s, just as junk bonds and cheap credit fueled the stock boom of a decade ago. The junk binge left the U.S. with a colossal hangover of corporate debt, and the IPO fever inspires some worries about the country's financial and economic health. Among other things, it raises the issue of whether a casino-like mentality tends to lure investors into high-risk and even dubious new issues, or tempt start-ups to race to market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ART OF THE DEAL | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...dining halls] have good stuff too," says Bill S. Triant '99. "But it's hard not to choose the junk...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Accuracy of 'Nutrition Bites' Questioned | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

...idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls. Forest Whitaker, a laid-back actor who directs this slow-fuse movie, lets his divas strut, smolder and tell off the skunks they once loved. This ain't art--it's more like tasty junk food. And Bassett provides the special sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EXHALING SUDS | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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