Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Democrats are equally loath to limit benefit increases. They are under pressure from the elderly, who have an exaggerated fear that if their pension checks do not keep pace with inflation they will be reduced to eating cat food. Members of the Gray Panthers, who demonstrated outside the meeting, chanted, "No ifs, no ands, no buts, no cost-of-living cuts." In fact, there is evidence that putting a cap on benefits would be justified. Tying Social Security payments to inflation amounts to a huge transfer of wealth from the young, whose earnings are not similarly protected...
...took him hunting and an enormous wild boar approached: "One could see easily why it had attained such a size. It was not greedy; it set about to investigate the bait. It examined the ground before every step. It looked carefully behind every tree. It advanced in a measured pace. It had clearly survived and thrived by taking no unnecessary chances. All its precautions attracted Brezhnev's attention, however, and he felled it with a single shot." Brezhnev probably understood the quarry because the quarry was so like himself. The difference was that Brezhnev had no Brezhnev...
Leading the buying charge were the big institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies and bank trust departments. Scared of being caught on the sidelines during Wall Street's greatest rally, portfolio managers snapped up stocks at a panic pace. Their favorites were the blue chip shares of giant corporations. IBM was up 3⅜ to 85¼. AT&T jumped...
Several encouraging economic trends have sparked and sustained the rally, which has pushed the Dow up by an astounding 275 points (35%) since mid-August. Inflation slowed to an annual rate of only 2.4% in September, a crawl by comparison with the 8.9% pace of last year. Because prices are rising less rapidly and the Federal Reserve Board has eased its monetary policy, interest rates have dropped sharply in the past three months. The bench-mark prime rate charged for corporate loans, for example, has dipped at some banks to 11.5%, from 16% in July. Investors are increasingly confident that...
This is another show from MTM Enterprises and has many of the house hallmarks: askew humor, good pace that is not in too much of a hurry for character, smart acting, quirky scripts. One recent show, written by Lee Zlotoff and directed by Jeff Bleckner, borrowed, with shrewd and subtle acknowledgment, not only a plot device but a character from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and did its source no dishonor. That is playing in the big leagues. But with the blithe charms of Zimbalist and Brosnan, Remington Steele is shaping up as championship stuff. -By Jay Cocks