Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Salomon Bros, officials, who had been besieged by telephone calls all morning, confirmed at 10:41 that Kaufman was releasing a new forecast that predicted further declines in interest rates. By 11:10, the Dow was up almost 9 points, and the rush to buy was on. Leading the charge were the scores of cash-laden institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies and banks, which snapped up stocks in blocks of 10,000 shares or more...
...coupons are a second currency," says Brian Heintzelman, chief inspector for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in San Francisco. "Anything you can buy with money, from electronics to houses to sex, you can buy with food stamps." Says his colleague, Jeffrey Rush, in the department's Chicago office: "We used to think food-stamp abuse was just done in small amounts by little old ladies, but now we've grown...
...building we are on comes under fire. A shell whistles overhead as we rush inside. The building shakes as each shell finds its target. Another shell crashes with an earsplitting sound into the parking lot below. We race down the steps, floor after floor, afraid for our lives. This time there are no mumbled apologies as we push past the guerrillas. Once back in the hotel I have two quick Scotches...
...quickly to my apartment and to TIME'S office to check for damage. As we are climbing the stairs to my apartment the shells start coming in again from the gunboats. We are trapped in the stairwell for five minutes or so as the building shakes. Then we rush over to the TIME office, which is something like a bunker, since it is on the ground floor and set into a hillside. For the next half an hour we sit and drink warm beer and listen to the shells whistling overhead...
...experimentation with a temperate hand. His greatest accomplishment is leaving the staging simple enough so that the occasional striking line has room to breathe, and the play's fascinating structure emerges from its weight of words. In so doing, he resists the natural impulse of most directors to rush apologetically through the play's excesses, shaving off a hall hour, perhaps, but burying the good along with...