Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most furious gold rush since the Gay Nineties. Canadians queued up in the bitter cold, frequently for hours at a time, uncharacteristically quarreling with one another, while waiting impatiently to buy tickets. Americans thronged across the border to get in on the game as well...
...Broadway players were suitably daunted by the exacting precision of Blakemore's instructions and Frayn's stage directions (the script for the second act has two columns to describe the simultaneous goings-on of the two farces). Says Actress Deborah Rush, who plays a spaced-out tax auditor in Nothing On: 'They knew just how many breaths were required between the opening and closing of a door." Brian Murray, the beleaguered director of Nothing On, recalls that just before rehearsals began, "Michael Blakemore called us together and told us that in two weeks we'd wish...
...Commission's traditional stand on these issues could not have been more complete. Ramirez, who, with Berry, clashed consistently with Pendleton in the two-day meeting, says she discerned a clear pattern in the voting. First, the majority of the commissioners seek to protect Reagan from criticism they "rush to support the Administration without sufficient study and deliberation," Ramirez says. The previous Commission has been unabashed critical of the President. But perhaps the most devasting of the body's tendencies--certainly for women and minorities--is its condemnation of affirmative action as adversely affecting whites...
...major danger in the new-issues market arises when companies attempt to sell their stock prematurely. Founders, backers and investment bankers can be tempted to hurry their offerings in the rush to capitalize on rising prices and public enthusiasm. That situation occurred early last summer, when the prices of newly issued securities reached their peak. Observes Sanford Robertson, a founder of Robertson, Colman & Stephens, an investment-banking firm in San Francisco: "In the summer there was a lot of junk. There were a lot of things with too high a price and too low a quality...
Despite the scramble for new systems, the benefits of mass transit are not always clear. In San Francisco, BART has not appreciably shortened the rush hour. The record for turning blighted downtowns into boom towns is equally spotty. Although citizens may live in apartment complexes clustered around new subway stops, they are no more likely to go to the center city to shop than to a nearby suburban shopping mall...