Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sharp drop in 30-year fixed mortgage rates, which started plummeting last summer and dipped to an 8.43% monthly average in January, their lowest level in 18 years. The drop touched off a wave of refinancing, as 1.6 million homeowners last year took advantage of lower interest to roll over their mortgages. Although rates inched up slightly in February, another 3 million homeowners -- an all-time record -- are expected to refinance this year...
...unstanched wound. The songs were usually interpreted as a reflection of his considerable personal turmoil. Human Touch and Lucky Town, as the titles suggest, are about putting smashed pieces together, about measuring loss and transcending it. Whatever he staked on these records, he's got it back on one Roll of the Dice...
...Hormel meat- packing plant in little Austin, Minn., eight years ago. My dear, how quaint. Are they really still having these things? Yes, and they are more difficult than ever to evaluate. In Austin there were three sides: a management operating in a depressed industry and determined to roll back wages despite continuing profits; an international union convinced that this was the wrong time for a strike; and a local union led by militants and further stirred by a hired consultant whose strategy was to embarrass the company into capitulation by bringing in the media...
...Complex World is a complex film. The press release describes it as a "rock-and-roll terrorist comedy," but that's only half the picture. The only thing constant in an endless stream of bizarre events is the Heartbreak Hotel, the classic rock-and-roll bar, a haven for bikers, drunk college students and girls in miniskirts...
Considering the fact that an 11-minute roll of film costs more than $200, where do these students get the funding to make films? From a variety of sources, say the filmmakers. The VES department usually funds a portion of the budgets, but the students frequently rely on their own money. As Weintrob said, "My American Express card is about $3000 out." Others rely on parental support, loans, grants and if they are lucky, a private benefactor...