Word: looming
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...maybe all of us at Harvardonce believed that in the future we would all be famous for fifteen minutes. But for many Harvard graduates living and working in New York, and many students in the Class of 2002, the question has become just how distant those fifteen minutes might loom. In a year when the economy has plummeted and the whole country has been affected by terrorist attacks, Harvard students in their ivory tower have not remained immune. For students like Gwen are not alone. She says many students in her own firm have been demoted to secretarial positions...
...Winners ANNE ROBINSON Weakest Link host is best-paid person on British TV. For our American readers, that's like being the highest earner on, say, Michigan TV WARREN BUFFET American billionaire buys Fruit of the Loom; during due diligence finds out the giant grape, banana and apple costumes not part of deal PINK FLOYD '70s rockers say pressing new CD will damage environment so they'll plant a forest. We've thought of another solution: no new CD Losers MICHAEL JACKSON Stores cancel 50% of orders for Jacko's $30 million album Invincible. Rejected titles: Indigestible, Unrecognizable, Inflammable MANOLO...
...year as manufacturers, taking advantage of NAFTA, continued to move south of the border. Last fall the government eliminated tariffs for apparel made with U.S. fabric from 24 Caribbean basin nations, spurring more U.S. job losses. The industry's economics are so unforgiving that underwear giant Fruit of the Loom sought bankruptcy protection in 1999 and still hasn't emerged...
Other characters loom large throughout the book, not in their own right, but as anchors in Fox’s sea of impermanence, however unfit for the job they may have been. Fox’s mother is portrayed as unrelentingly cruel and unstable, a woman who hurled a glass of water at her young daughter’s back and begrudged her grown daughter a previous gift of a picture of her grandfather. “How could it be that Elsie was enough of an organic being to have carried me in her belly for a term...
...medium that magnifies the importance of things even as it shrinks their size, small gains loom large. Even allowing for a wide margin of shlock in the new season, some of it will be the shlock of recognition. With a gibe at anti Semitism here, a humorous insight into sexual hang-ups there, home screen entertainment is beginning to be a little less of a window on the void. It is becoming a little more of a mirror...