Word: noisier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million) largely through his Paris-based holding company, Cerus, prompted hurrahs in Italy's financial community. "It was a brilliant operation, a theatrical coup," said Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, and Italian newspapers bannered triumphant headlines like DE BENEDETTI, KING OF BELGIUM. But the cross-border bid stirred far noisier wails of protest across Belgium. "Financial piracy!" declared La Generale's chief, Rene Lamy. GENERALE UNDER THE ITALIAN BOOT, screamed a headline...
...McMains: "The problem with appointments is who gets to do it. If it's the Governor, you've just shifted where the politics are." In some states merit selection has scarcely contained the efforts spent to put judges on the bench and keep them there. "Judicial campaigns are getting noisier, nastier and costlier," notes Georgetown Law Professor Roy Schotland, an authority on campaign spending...
...next battle: the U.S. proposed that if the Soviets eliminated all their SS-20s, NATO would not just restrict its prospective deployment but cancel it altogether. The simplicity and boldness of the scheme appealed to Reagan, and it had the advantage of seeming to give some of the noisier Europeans what they wanted. Pacifists and critics of NATO in Schmidt's Social Democratic Party had called for the Null-Losung, the "zero solution," although for them, along with "ban the Bomb" and "zone of peace," it was part of the vocabulary of European neutralism. Thus Perle was able...
Exclamation points and toll-free telephone numbers were sprouting last week like the most impatient blossoms of spring. Banks, brokerages and other financial organizations sprinkled them across their newspaper ads, pasted them up in their windows and posted them on billboards. In an extravaganza that gets noisier every year, the institutions were making their last-minute pitches to lure millions of consumers who were shopping for investment vehicles for their individual retirement accounts...
...people ran up and down, so happy were they to be free of those things. It couldn't have been noisier if U.C.L.A. were playing U.S.C." Tribal bloodshed ceased, the fear of spirits abated, and gradually more than 100,000 of the Danis became Christians...