Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executives, uses bank loans and high-interest junk bonds to buy a firm and take it private. Almost without exception, the group immediately slashes costs, lays off workers and sells divisions to reduce debt; the managers may eventually reap huge profits by selling the streamlined company back to public investors...
...years the rate would return to 28% with indexing for inflation. Investors would be sure to roll over their assets and produce a quick windfall for the Treasury -- at the expense of future tax collections. House Speaker Tom Foley calls it "robbing from future generations." Lawrence Summers, a Harvard public-finance expert, calls it "probably the worst tax proposal in the history of the Republic...
Shaw was betrayed by his own facility. On the night in 1936 that Bury the Dead had its first public performance, he was signing to write his first movie, something called The Big Game. And that was pretty much the way it went with him thereafter. There was nothing he couldn't write, so there was nothing he didn't write. Preoccupied by productivity and the demands of his life- style, he had no time left to develop the guiding vision of self and world a major novelist needs...
...there is "no justification" for it. Fumes California State's Robert Eisenman: "We are tired of being treated contemptuously." Behind the scenes, scholars are exchanging bitter private letters and passing around bootlegged photos. What is all the fuss about? The protesters are referring to the long delay in making public many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, those mysterious documents discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem. As they see it, the world has long been unnecessarily deprived of data vital to understanding Jewish and Christian history...
...success has spawned a network of allied organizations. Among them: the Pretoria-based Lawyers for Human Rights, which presses private law firms to take public-interest cases; the Black Lawyers' Association and its offshoot the Legal Education Center in Johannesburg; and the Institute for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. All participate in a thriving exchange of students and professors between the U.S. and South Africa. Says John Dugard, head of the Institute for Applied Legal Studies: "These days, even high-court judges are making study trips to the U.S. Our legal education system is looking more...