Word: loads
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...Davis: No. That's pure nonsense. The 1980s was purely going on overextending debt and looking for never-never land. Balance sheets meant nothing in the 1980s. Today anybody who takes on a load of debt is going to work his tail off to bring it down. You can't just call up a Drexel or a Goldman or a Merrill Lynch and say, gee, I've got this wonderful idea, I need 7 billion bucks, do you think you can finance...
Today's casino-driven prosperity is a somewhat self-contained bubble. The state's welfare case load has risen 54% just since 1991. "We currently have 10,500 new jobs coming online," says welfare administrator Mila Florence, referring to the staffing of the Luxor, Treasure Island and MGM Grand. "The number of persons coming into the state seeking those jobs far exceeds the number of jobs available, so our agency becomes the safety...
...tremendous support before the Klaas case, but ((since Davis was captured)) our 800 number has got so many calls we blew out the voice-mail systems." (Not everybody is signing up, however. State assemblyman John Burton notes, "I don't think it's a good idea to load up the wagon with criminals that are felons . . . but who are not grave threats to individual safety...
...always, talk about gun control in any form is enough to make the N.R.A. load its ammunition. "They can talk taxes and gun bans all day, but it won't get us further down the road to stopping violent crime," complains N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. "I say, go ahead, pass your taxes, pass more gun bans, and we'll see you at the polls in '94." But even some less biased observers wonder whether most kinds of gun control may not do more harm than good. Gary Kleck, a professor at Florida State University, is author of Point...
...Last year, we went out a lot of times thinking that Tyler [Rullman '93] had to get 20 [points], but we weren't playing as a team. This year, we know that if one guy doesn't shoulder the load all the time, someone else will," one player said...