Word: pile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...moves toward ever darker, more claustrophobic interiors as Betty realizes that the lackadaisical Zorg cannot absorb all of her energies. She discovers that he once wrote, and abandoned, a novel. She will type out the manuscript and get the masterpiece off to the publishers. When the rejections pile up, she focuses her hopes on motherhood. When her pregnancy proves to be false, the only place to turn is inward, toward self-destruction. It is a fine irony that Zorg achieves a passion to answer hers only when he must help her complete her botched suicide...
...fable for long. After the revolution comes the Realpolitik, and happy-ever-afters soon dissolve. The day after her victory, Aquino found herself in charge of one of the world's most desperate countries, saddled with a foreign debt of $27 billion, 20,000 armed Communist guerrillas and a pile of government institutions that bore her predecessors' monogram...
...aims to strengthen its No. 2 position in Texas by acquiring Interfirst, the state's fourth largest bank. Said Fronterhouse, who will head the combined company: "This is a bank made by Texans for Texans." One challenge will be to help Interfirst dig out from under a $1.1 billion pile of sour energy loans and depressed real estate holdings...
...twin deficits -- budget and trade -- have created a historically unprecedented pile of external U.S. debt. America now owes foreign creditors nearly $200 billion, making it the world's largest debtor country. If trade deficits were to continue at their current level, the debt could reach $800 billion by 1991, Feldstein estimated. More ominous, U.S. debt could suddenly hit a critical point at which foreign investors become concerned that their money is concentrated too much in one place. Any sudden loss of confidence, said De Vries, could send the dollar into a steep fall. A plunge in the dollar could ignite...