Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweeping layoffs and cost cuts had been causing high anxiety at the company for weeks. Even so, when AT&T announced last week that it would close some of its plants, eliminate 27,400 jobs and take a $3.2 billion write-off against its fourth-quarter earnings, the sheer magnitude of the reductions was stunning. The job cuts alone were the largest in the firm's history, and the write- off will all but wipe out 1986 after-tax earnings, which had been expected to approach $2 billion. While one spokesman for the Communications Workers union accused the company...
Cartoonists will undoubtedly have fun with Wright's distinctively bushy eyebrows and sharp features, but not nearly as much as they had with Tip's nose and sheer bulk. The two leaders' personal styles are as different as their physical attributes. While the bluff O'Neill could growl out a rough response to Republican policy, Wright has a well-earned reputation as the House's foremost debater, and Reagan is already feeling the sting of his remarks. "Harry Truman said the buck stops here," he said in a speech last week, "but Ronald Reagan says put it on a credit...
...finest actors can practice until the finest performance is captured and preserved on film, while the potential for sheer spectacle is unsurpassed. There are no bad seats, and no off-nights. And those who saw the Miklos Jansco films recently shown at the Carpenter Center realize that the camera can create images far more powerful and complex than even Robert Wilson is capable of on the stage...
...sense that was unsurprising, since the company completely dominates the market for the high-interest junk bonds that have been issued to finance so many corporate mergers and buyouts. For other Wall Street firms even remotely connected with suspect deals, a major source of concern was the sheer sweep of Boesky's operations over the years. Said a member of the Goldman, Sachs investment house: "Most major brokerage firms executed trading orders for Boesky." Agreed another Wall Street analyst: "We are all scared that it will work its way back here...
Nonetheless, Ginsberg presents in White Shroud some gems within the political rough. Those gems were formed by the sheer force of Whitman, Williams, and a younger Allen Ginsberg, and they reflect an illuminating vision and a lasting value...