Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then it will package the old reliables and promote the young presentables -- including a good-looking network reporter with nothing on his mind but making it. Does an avid stockbroker, like the one in Wall Street, want to make a quick kill? Then he will sell himself to the nearest killer -- a raider who is part Ivan Boesky, more Mephistopheles. Cut a deal with the devil, and you may become...
...nearest he has come to an explanation is the incredible assertion that an $8 billion new jobs program would take care of everything. Not only would the program guarantee every American a four-day-a-week job, Simon says, but it would also result in enough new tax revenue to balance the budget. He has repeatedly argued that, for every percentage point reduction in unemployment, the deficit falls by $30 billion. While appealing, this claim is really just a way to avoid discussing hard political choices, such as a tax increase...
...gentle, white-haired man who practices his spiritual arts in a modest apartment in midtown New York City. Now his eyes are half shut, unseeing, and when he next speaks, in a strangely clipped Irish accent, he represents a "tutelage" of spectral beings from Alpha Centauri, the nearest of the stars...
...Supreme Court held that a corporate director could not legally profit from buying his company's stock based on information about the firm that he had concealed from another shareholder. But that case was too narrow to serve as a model for other insider-trading cases. The nearest thing to a definition is a provision in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that prohibits using a "manipulative or deceptive device" in connection with the purchase or sale of a stock. In recent years, prosecutors have developed their own broad definition of an insider trader: almost anyone who uses information...
...when Brown appeared before Judge Robert Lippmann five days after her commitment to Bellevue, she was calm and articulate. The nearest public toilet was at Grand Central Terminal, too far to walk, she explained. She tore up money when she had enough for the day because it was dangerous to carry cash at night. Yet do-gooders persisted. "I've heard people say, 'Take it, it will make me feel good,' or 'I'm only trying to help you,' " Brown complained. "Is it my job to make them feel good...