Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screenplay. Taken together, however, both demonstrate a serious artistic ineptitude. While Bridges may have intended to create a film to shock his viewers into an awareness of the precarious, decadent lifestyle of drug addicts and criminals, he never successfully carries it off. Instead, the film founders on a precarious limb of its own, never quite certain what its message is or why its even bothers to exist...
...only greed is left. Awash with petrodollars in the '70s, big banks lent to every comer with a flag and a UN seat. Confident that this type of lending wasn't subject to ordinary precautions applied to individual customers, bankers went far out on a limb. Now the bankers are equally confident that they've gone so far with the nation's wealth that the U.S. government will have to bail them out if worse comes to worse. Attached to the recent emergency Congressional approbation for the International Monetary Fund were new regulations concerning just that. Congress should be ready...
...Angeles audience cheered him to the rafters, but no nationwide ground swell of public opinion developed to lift him high. "Everything was downhill after L.A.," says Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press aide. "The point was driven home to him that he was 'dead.' The limb had been sawed...
...Limb, MacLaine...
...Search of Excellence, Peters and Waterman (1) 2. The One Minute Manager, Blanchard and Johnson (2) 3. Megatrends, Naisbitt (4) 4. Creating Wealth, Allen (3) 5. Out on a Limb, MacLaine (5) 6. Tough Times Never Last, but Tough People Do!, Schuller 1. Seeds of Greatness, Waitley (8) 8. Nothing Down, Allen (9) 9. Working Out, Hix (10) 10. Growing Up, Baker