Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played its usual dominant role. I rememberFinley remarking that "if Harvard can reduce thetime you think about the opposite sex from 90percent to 70 percent of your working hours, thenwe will have succeeded in reaching you something."Women generally were reluctant, not aggressive.This was P.P., pre-the-pill. No women spent thenight in our dorms, openly that is, and alas, oneof our class' great regrets is that we just missedthe sexual revolution. Not completely, thankgoodness, though the Cliffies were so bright manyfound them intimidating and headed happily for themore yielding fields of Pine Manor and Simmons...
...popular Hardy-family films between 1937 and 1947, knew no crime or addiction. The lawns in front of those two-story white houses were as smooth as an Emerald City carpet, and Dad's morning newspaper always landed smartly on the front porch. When girls gossiped about "the pill," they were referring to an % unpopular guy at the far end of the study hall. If Go-Getting Teenager Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) got "in trouble" with a debutante or chorus girl, it wouldn't be that kind of trouble--just the yelp of puppy love. And it wouldn...
...expected opposition. | "Everybody will know whom we're talking about," he said, "so why not?" Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose country has the closest economic and emotional ties to its former colony Libya, was perhaps the most reluctant to go along. While Craxi eventually conceded, his bitter pill of support was sugared by an agreement to add Italy, as well as Canada, to the regular sessions that have been held by the finance ministers of the five other nations...
...bonds and who have felt unfairly battered in the merger and takeover wars that have rocked Wall Street. In their view, many of those battles led to substantial portfolio losses for investors as beleaguered corporate executives paid off would-be takeover artists with greenmail, adopted so-called poison-pill measures to dissuade unwanted suitors by making their firms less attractive targets, or handed themselves fat settlements known as golden parachutes. All too often, argues New York's Goldin, "the shareholders have gotten short shrift...
...required for a significant range of management actions. Among them: issuing stock that would dilute the voting power of existing shares by 20% or more, selling 20% or more of corporate assets to a hostile bidder in exchange for a takeover cease-fire, paying greenmail, or adopting a poison pill. Says Roland Machold, director of New Jersey's treasury division of investment: "We just want to be brought in on the big decisions...