Word: shun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the regulatory climate has softened. The SEC once ordered tender offers scrapped if the disclosure statement was incomplete or in error. Now the SEC and the courts simply require that corrections be made while the offer proceeds. The Federal Reserve Board is no longer leaning on banks to shun "unproductive" loans for purposes like acquiring companies-so there is more money available to raiders...
...lend money to the city, was itself in serious trouble. New York City and state bonds account for about 19% of the $200 billion state and municipal notes and bonds in circulation. As a result, a double default could well undermine investors' confidence in the market, causing them to shun the bonds of many other cities, states, counties and local authorities, imperiling their ability to borrow money. That could lead to their defaults too, and more business failures and higher unemployment. The nation's economic recovery could be set back, and overseas financial markets might be disrupted...
...rather you not eat it--some things are just bad form," but there aren't any other allusions to graceless forms on the page, so upi might as well supply the rest yourself. For example, a lot of the woman's poems are some of those things you should shun. They're too easy to swallow, and this has enticed a whole flock of followers who chuck stanzas between their gums without noticing that their form is bad--consuming mediocre poetry is bad form...
...just because the president isn't the life of the University doesn't mean the rest of the administration's cast of characters sit in a quiet corner and shun publicity...
Etymologically, "capitalism" implies no more than a system that stresses the accumulation and use of capital-and all forms of economic organization do that. Some free-enterprisers even shun the word because it was popularized by Karl Marx and other socialist thinkers as a name for a system that they were attacking, and it retains a pejorative flavor. Adam Smith never mentioned capitalism in any of his works; he preferred the term natural order...