Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many investors are influencing corporate behavior by putting their money where their morals are. Socially conscious investment funds now hold nearly $500 billion, up from $40 billion in 1984, according to Gordon Davidson, head of the Social Investment Forum in Boston. Much of this nest egg belongs to pension funds like the $53 billion California Public Employees Retirement System. Their increasingly activist stance has strengthened the hand of the many religious groups that have waged an 18-year fight with corporations, seeking to influence policy through proxy battles at shareholders' meetings. Harrison Goldin, the comptroller of New York City...
Tale spinners Spielberg and Lucas (who devised the story with Menno Meyjes) and screenwriter Jeffrey Boam were obviously brimming to work variations on the nearly $700 million-grossing theme. For openers, they toss teenage Indy (River Phoenix) into a nest of cave robbers, a lion's den and a snake pit, thereby explaining, with an economy that Feuillade and Freud might admire, the origins of their hero's hat, his favorite weapon and his fear of serpents. The movie's creators have not grown tired. They keep the action cracking as smartly as Indy's bullwhip...
Quietly, Lear recedes as the band of vocal editors suggests fresh definitions: "sensual," "off the nest," "reborn," "glamourized," "well maintained." "Too much like automobiles," trills Lear, shooting across the room like a small comet. At 65, she's delicately handsome: 5 ft. 6 in., 115 lbs., with a taut dancer's body, sandblasted jawline, thick uncolored platinum hair and barely a trace of makeup except for one "expensive cosmetic," the face-lifting, her first done in her late 40s. Her fastidiously tailored look is accented by understated braided-gold Cartier jewelry and a black-band Tiffany watch. But behind...
...Said a Chicago police officer after buying a Treasury bond last week: "If you invest in the Federal Government, the whole country has to fall apart before you lose anything." Despite the Government's profligate spending habits, most people think it can still be trusted with a citizen's nest...
...Pita's Paso Doble, a classical love story about factory workers involved in a menage-a-trois, takes the screen at 9 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Sunday. Then, Wasps Nest, which is a satirical glimpse at the life of nouveau riche sisters and their family antics, takes over Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday night at 7 p.m., as well...