Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the many and persistent theories about the homogenization of America, the remarkable fact is that virtually every community and region in the nation remains convinced of its own distinctiveness and proud of what it considers its superiority in one respect or another. In short, local chauvinism is alive and well and residing-where else?-in every best damn state/city/town/county/region in the good...
Despite Chrysler's immediate enthusiasm, the Treasury package falls far short of what the company sought. It does not give Chrysler the $1 billion cash aid that some analysts insist is the minimum it needs to keep going until late next year...
...managers, said Miller, must draw up "an acceptable financial and operating plan" for dealing with the company's short-and long-term problems as well as spelling out its cash needs. This strategy will have to include sacrifices by everybody with an interest in saving the company: management, stockholders, employees, bankers and suppliers. Only such an effort can ease the Chrysler crisis. The long troubled company lost $204.6 million last year but topped that in this year's second quarter alone, when it ran $207.1 million in the red. Faced with the possibility of a shattering loss...
Hearing that, the UAW'S Fraser, with equal hyperbole, called Murphy a "horse's ass." In short, emotions are high, and there are no clear, simple answers...
...system of justice is a huge and complex machine. Delicately balanced by counterweights, equipped with elaborate filters and safety valves, it is designed to sort the guilty from the innocent, restore rights, redress wrongs. In short, to do justice...