Word: rife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...producers have minimized the comparisons to the novel by calling the screenplay a "palimpsest," a Greek word for a manuscript that has been partially erased and written upon several times. While the book was a lengthy work rife with literary references, every moment full of life's rich pageant, the film tends to focus on the murder mystery, the Spanish Inquisition and the relationship between the brilliant investigating monk, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and his young apprentice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater...
...Philippine President Corazon Aquino's first official visit to the U.S. and a planned meeting with Ronald Reagan at the White House, Manila was rife with rumors that a military coup might take place during her absence. Despite persistent friction within her government between some civilian Cabinet members and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who last week warned that he might react "like Rambo" if his colleagues continued their criticism, the President seemed unperturbed. Looking fresh and relaxed, Aquino had just finished giving a group of schoolchildren a tour as she greeted TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief William Stewart...
...decade the city has slipped from second place in the Soviet Union to 58th in new-housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished as a problem but has simply been driven indoors by Gorbachev's antidrinking campaign, while drug abuse is "widespread" and thievery in retail stores is rife. "We dig and dig," he reportedly said, "and still we don't get to the bottom of the filthy well." Though Yeltsin ruffled some party feathers, his frank speech seemed a harbinger of more glasnost to come...
...surge in foreign interest in the City has put the best local brokerage talent at a premium. According to local headhunters, the chief of sales and trading at a major investment bank now earns an average of $300,000 annually. Poaching is rife: last month City wine bars were abuzz with the news that Peregrine Moncreiffe, former head of gilt trading at London's Shearson-Lehman International, had jumped to E.F. Hutton for a salary of about $1.5 million. The newly rich brokerage crowd is helping to push up real estate prices in such flossy London neighborhoods as Kensington...
Despite the SEC's stepped-up enforcement, many Wall Streeters believe that the investment world is still rife with insider trading. They note that in scores of mergers, including General Electric-RCA, Capital Cities-ABC and Philip Morris-General Foods, a run-up in the price of the target company's shares proves that many investors bought stock based on advance knowledge of the deal...