Word: makin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home-equity loan. Homeowners who borrow too heavily could lose their houses if a recession left them out of a job and unable to make payments. "The real irony will be if everyone's Rock of Gibraltar asset turns out to be a house of cards," says John Makin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...independence to be "terribly critical." He has little choice, moneymen say. "His life will be very difficult if he is perceived as someone who will play politics. He has got to impress ((central bankers)) abroad, and the way to do that is by being a tough guy," says John Makin, director of fiscal policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
History was in the makin...
...hundred years now that statue has said to folks all the way from Europe, and even France, that when they came to America they were not alone. But I think they knew they were alone. Everyone who escapes to freedom has to come alone, 'cause you are makin' your way from home, no matter how unfree home may be. You got to decide for yerself to leave home. Ain't nothin' lonelier than that...
Meanwhile, Harvard will field its soundest team in years and there's the makin' of a whole lot of shakin' from the fellows in Briggs Athletic Center...