Word: pileup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist China's history never took place. Thousands of troops never stormed the perimeters of Tiananmen Square. Hundreds, probably thousands, of students never died. Photographs depicting bloodied faces and battered bodies, news footage documenting the clatter of gunfire and the crunch of army tanks, foreign press reports detailing the pileup of dead and wounded bodies at hospitals -- none of it happened...
...that pileup of "onceagains" finally undoes this sequel. For if writers Ramis and Aykroyd have slightly altered the circumstances of their central figures, they have not bothered to develop their characters any further. Dana, for example, has a baby and a tangle-tongued boss -- marvelously played by Peter MacNicol -- who is madly in love with her. The ghostbusters themselves are suffering, to good comic effect, from celebrity burnout and municipal ire over their failure to clean up the mess that they made the last time they saved the city...
...rapid pileup of debt that has alarmed everyone from small investors to Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who recently called for measures to curb borrowing...
...only was there not a single two-on-one or three-on-two goal in games that mattered, but the overtime goal by Lake Superior State against St. Lawrence in the title game came from a pileup resembling a rugby scrum...
...when Gualtieri scored from a pileup resembling a rugby scrum in front of White, the Crimson had dropped its first Ivy League home game in more than two years...