Word: pent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem: As O'Neill wrote it, Journey was to be much more sophisticated than unrelenting tension. It is about explosion. It is about motion. It is a rare glimpse at a family's life when all the pent up anger, frustration, and unspoken truths are suddenly released...
...candidates have proposed more spending and incentives for infrastructure and technology, which has boosted some stocks in those categories. But the overall market will probably stay in a holding pattern until Nov. 3, says Roger Servison, retail-group president at Fidelity Investments. Says he: "There's a lot of pent-up demand building out there...
...1900s architecture. The big Catalan mercantile families who made their piles after 1850 and ran the city tended to preen themselves on being modern versions of Renaissance princes -- all the more so since most of their grandfathers had been artisans or colonial hustlers. There was a lot of pent- up vigor and ambition itching to glorify itself...
...most of the activity has been generated by home purchases. Prospective buyers accounted for more than two-thirds of all mortgage applications in March, compared with 27% in February. "There's a lot of pent-up demand out there," says Hugh Kelly, director of economic research at the New York City real estate firm Landauer Associates...
...equity of it (the rich have already had their top tax bracket cut from 70% in 1980 to an effective 34% today), you have to wonder whether a broad capital-gains tax cut would really serve to jump-start the economy. Wouldn't it loose an awful lot of pent-up selling pressure on the real estate and stock markets? If the tax were cut, my own first thought wouldn't be "Great! What can I buy?" It would be "Great! What should I sell?" And one thing we don't need right now -- ask any banker hanging...