Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last night's three-hour hearing, seven of the council's nine members lambasted the plan, saying it would destroy parkland, cast a huge shadow over the surrounding neighborhoods and create excessive air and noise pollution...
...industry's woes cast a gloomy shadow last week over the normally upbeat annual meeting of the American Bankers Association in Orlando. Attendance was off nearly 20% from last year as many members stayed home to tend to their troubled portfolios. Those who showed up foresaw no relief from the real estate depression. "I'm not planning on it getting any better in 1991," said Thomas Labrecque, president of Chase Manhattan, which lost $623 million in the third quarter of 1990, largely because of bad mortgage loans...
...several years the postgraduate hacked out financial guides. According to his proud calculations, they earned him more royalties than Hemingway. He had a "good war" from 1943 to 1945, operating along a shadow line in the Office of Strategic Services. After V-J day it was business as usual. By the '70s, shrewd venture capitalism and self-promotion had made him a multimillionaire. ; They had also made him an important contributor to the G.O.P. treasury and strategy. When Reagan assumed office he offered Casey, his campaign manager, the CIA job. "If it wasn't for you," said the President...
Once out of prison, Sonny realizes that he is in love with Hannah and that his new shadow status in the underground means he does not have to explain his absences from home to his wife Aila, his daughter Baby or his son Will. They all, however, wind up knowing where and with whom he has been spending his time. The consequences of such knowledge prove as shattering as the strictures of apartheid...
...this warm and happy memoir there is a shadow, not over Ike's time or his achievements but over the U.S. of today. Jackson talks about it from his corner of Kansas above the Smoky Hill River, the same one that nurtured Ike. Was the unspoiled land and Abilene and the Eisenhower family -- and so many others like them in that era -- a one-time event in our history, now swept away by excessive wealth, greed, waste, softness and self-pity? Jackson confesses he has no certain answer. But he is worried by what he sees throughout the nation. When...