Word: out-of-the-way
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...oversize can of Foster's Lager was going for $5.50, and going very well indeed). Swelling the city's already eclectic cuisine is an international array of offerings from bratwurst and gelato to the spicy home-town jambalaya. Some food sellers, however, particularly those in the out-of-the-way market area, reported that fairgoers were not gobbling their fare at quite the anticipated rate...
...Heard on the Street" column of the Wall Street Journal (circ. 2 million) is always tucked onto the bottom of the paper's penultimate page. But its out-of-the-way position belies its importance as a mover of markets. A gossipy grab bag of investment tips, spot analysis and rumors about companies, the daily feature can drive stocks sharply up or down. Last week, though, the column itself was hot news on Wall Street. In an extraordinary front-page story and related articles, the Wall Street Journal disclosed details of what is shaping up as probably the most...
Greyhound, of course, has also benefited from deregulation. It is easier for the company to trim its route list because it is no longer required to serve out-of-the-way hamlets and small towns. Greyhound has given notice that it would like to cut trips to 98 communities in California alone. But the route changes have not come quickly enough to compensate for the company's falling ridership. Last year Greyhound Lines ran up an operating loss of $16.3 million...
...days when banks were not permitted to offer a higher rate of interest than that set by the Federal Government, the financial institutions competed on the basis of customer convenience. Branches sprouted like hamburger stands as banks ventured into out-of-the-way places. Says Steven Rautenberg, a vice president with Chase Manhattan: "Since we couldn't offer market value on savings, we needed a branch on almost every corner to attract business." The total number of branches of banks in the U.S. increased from 21,880 in 1970 to 43,995 in 1981, the peak year...
...subject that can be fully viewed only in the shadow cast by the Holocaust. The book's governing metaphor is the cannibal galaxy-in astronomy, one of the vast colonies of stars that devour smaller galaxies. The cannibal stands for Europe, devouring its Jewish citizens. Such out-of-the-way images spring naturally from Ozick's prodigious erudition. This novel, like her earlier short stories and novellas (The Pagan Rabbi, Levitation, Bloodshed), is dense with metaphor, often drawn from the rich Jewish resources at her command: the Hebrew Bible, the Midrashim, or Jewish homilies, and the mystic texts...