Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OOPS! BAD TIME TO GO OUT ON A LIMB. Robert Holmes a Court, 51, Australia's first billionaire, was heading for a fall last year when he bought huge blocks of stock, including a 10% stake in Texaco. The crash cut his personal fortune from an estimated $1.1 billion in mid-1987 to $400 million now. Lately, instead of stalking giant corporations on several continents, the Perth-based investor has been making far more modest acquisitions, such as sheep ranches, land for an industrial park and paintings for his private collection...
...growth, prosperity and smaller bureaucracy can aid the inner-city poor. Unlike most conservative Republicans, he was willing to acknowledge the urgency of the concerns that form the base of Jackson's platform. If he was not committed to solving these problems, why would he go out on a limb to invite comparisons and cooperation with the most liberal of liberals, while appealing to the most conservative of audiences...
...flaunted 6-in. fingernails, which didn't cause any apparent wind drag. At the world championships in Rome last year, she resembled an exotic alien in her hooded bodysuit. And at this year's Olympic trials in Indianapolis, she titillated fans with the "one-legger," which covers one limb in vivid color and leaves the other muscularly bare...
...Bentsen will help Dukakis in Texas," Davis said. "I will go out on a limb and predict that Dukakis will carry Texas because of Bentsen...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...