Word: refugee
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So here comes Disney with Encino Man (May 22), in which MTV Valley Dude Pauly Shore digs up a frozen caveman, and Sister Act (May 29), with Whoopi Goldberg taking refuge from the mob in Maggie Smith's convent. Encino Man is already touted as "the Wayne's World of...
Congress added the Chapter 11 provision to the federal bankruptcy code in 1978 so companies could stay in business while working out repayment plans. But a national debate has now sprung up over whether the country would be better off if sick firms were allowed to die. Last year nearly...
A growing body of critics charge that Chapter 11 has become a tool that wily managers can now use to stiff creditors and preserve their own jobs. Moreover, they argue, companies in Chapter 11 can take advantage of the fact that they pay no interest on part of their debt...
Race adds a final layer of complication to the picture. As many African Americans have flowed into the middle class, they too have sought refuge in the suburbs -- often against the resistance of red-lining banks and reluctant white neighbors. Their departure has done more than deny tax revenue to...
But the more he teaches, the more he realizes that the island he views as a refuge is for them an intellectual prison, cut off from stimulus and change. By the end of the show, the rebel ex-hippie has talked himself out of a job but is convinced that...