Word: scrapingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slowly, the east is beginning to look much like the west. Colorful storefronts and advertisements have covered some of the east's shabbiness. VWs outnumber spluttering Trabants. Blackened buildings are disappearing behind scaffolding as workers scrape away a half-century of grime. The air is cleaner...
...something different out of next to nothing. These fine artists must also be slick salesmen. They scrounge for five, six, seven years to get funding -- because it's harder to raise money for a $90,000 no-star feature than it is for a $90 million Schwarzenepic -- and then scrape at the doors of independent distributors. They should win an Irving Thalberg award just for persistence...
...will be the much touted Viper sports car (price: $50,000), due by December. Next will come a new Jeep in January and a line of sleek, mid-size sedans, code-named LH, in the summer of 1992. Such offerings have persuaded some experts that the company will scrape through its latest crisis. Says John Casesa, who follows the company for the securities firm Wertheim Schroder & Co. in Manhattan: "I think Chrysler's going to make...
Where once employers hired interns and summer associates in droves, the economic downturn has forced college students who once easily found high-paying employment to scrape for opportunities...
...Cheney was not buying. If he did go to Congress and managed to scrape up - the $1.4 billion, he kept asking, would the contractors then develop the eight prototypes and meet all the contract terms? Or would they run over budget again? "The bottom line was that no one could tell Cheney how much money it would take to finish the development program," explained a defense official. "They couldn't say that $1.4 billion would be enough. And he wasn't going to write any blank checks...