Word: lighteners
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...Rauch, wearing a sweater and jeans, gave a speech that made fun of the council's seriousness. This would be the beginning of Rauch's reputation for dry, witty speeches given in a monotone--speeches that would lighten the mood of many meetings and earn him council goodwill...
Imagine this scenario. You are an employer seeking a qualified assistant to help lighten your workload. Two people--a college graduate and a Ph.D.--apply for the job. You decide to hire the Ph.D. because he has more experience, obviously. But the college graduate, who is a Black female, sues for discrimination...
...sloop Australia II captured the America's Cup. In the same determined manner, Bond, 51, has run up more than $3 billion of debt in recent years while capturing a global empire of properties ranging from half of Chile's telephone system to Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing. To lighten his crushing debt load, Bond is now shedding properties almost as fast as he acquired them...
...American institution. But to escape a corporate raider, Fruehauf in 1986 went private in a leveraged buyout that sent the company into a skid from which it never recovered. After borrowing $1.5 billion to repurchase its stock from shareholders, the Detroit company frantically sold one division after another to lighten its debt burden. To no avail: when it completes the sale of a subsidiary that makes wheels and brakes later this summer, Fruehauf, which had 1986 revenues of $2.7 billion and ranked among the 150 largest U.S. manufacturers, will be an empty shell existing in name only...
...Same as they did when told by another company there would be no band pictures, "because we don't want black radio to see they're white, and we don't want white radio to see they're black." Don says Geffen told the band to whiten up and lighten up "not because they were a racist record company. They were only reflecting a basic reality of the music business." But then, deflecting such realities, changing the perspectives and finding a soulful congeniality is the method behind the band's mad music...