Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past five years, tens of thousands of new jobs were created in Boston; apparently most have gone to engineers, lawyers, computer technicians, managers and other upwardly mobile residents. The same sleek "gentry" have taken apartments and houses in once declasse areas, displacing poor and working-class Bostonians. In Jamaica Plain, one of the city's most integrated neighborhoods (53% white, 25% Hispanic), the influx of moneyed young professionals since 1979 has quintupled the price of some houses and pushed up rents as much as 70%. M.I.T. Urban Studies Assistant Professor Yohel Camayd-Freixas claims that more than a quarter...
Continental Illinois' problem loans have multiplied as the economy has slumped. By offering the details to public scrutiny, the bank at least made it plain that it is not in any danger of collapse, or indeed of a serious cash squeeze. Losses on bad loans are expected to increase, but healthy loans will still enable the bank to turn a year-end profit that many analysts have been predicting will reach at least $125 million. That is far more in earnings than many of Continental's customers can count...
...Eden Burning, Plain...
...product of another time and place: Paris, 1955. It was a period when French cineastes noted that two things they admired, American genre movies and existential philosophy, had one thing in common: an admiration for the heroic figure who defined himself and his code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape up the financing for Bob, Melville...
...Eden Burning, Plain...