Word: niftiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post-David Lean days, toil to see how many angels can dance on the head of a penny. For perhaps a tenth of Black Rain's budget, Queen of Hearts lays out a beguiling panorama of romance and revenge, coming of age and coming to terms. Oh, and the niftiest talking pig since Porky...
ARMS began to attract attention when interest rates started rising in the late 1970s. A year ago, an increasing number of home buyers viewed the ARM as the niftiest invention since aluminum siding. In November 1982, Houstonites Sheila and Bert Christensen would have been unable to afford their four-bedroom house at the daunting 15% going rate for a conventional mortgage. But with an ARM, the computer repairman and his wife paid an initial rate of just 11⅞% on their $85,000 home. Now they wish they had never heard of ARMS. Last January their lender boosted the rate...