Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony is that the accelerating slide into irrelevance comes just as the banks racked up record profits of $43 billion over the past 15 months, creating the impression that the industry is staging a comeback. But that income was not the result of smart lending decisions. Instead of earning money by financing America's recovery, the banks mainly invested their funds -- on which they were paying a bargain-basement 2% or so -- in risk-free Treasury bonds that yielded 7%. That left bank officers with little to do except put their feet on their desks and watch the interest roll...
...FUTURE: I don't plan to do anything different for the next 10 years. I don't plan to retire to some deserted island. I wouldn't meet smart people; I wouldn't be challenged. I have the most interesting job in America...
Then he scares you witless. Here come a nosy tyrannosaur and a fan-faced, bilious dilophosaur. Nastiest of all are the velociraptors, smart, relentless punks in packs -- Saurz N the Hood. They have a special appetite for kids, just like the great white shark in the movie that made Spielberg's rep. Now it has some worthy successors: primeval creatures with personality and a lot of bite. Jurassic Park is the true Jaws...
...huge tree and a van were teetering on the branch above you, would you race down the side of the tree just ahead of the plummeting vehicle, or would you move sensibly to the other side of the tree? But that is just another horror-movie tradition Spielberg observes: smart people doing really dumb things...
...what? This is at heart a picture about animals doing really smart things. The dilophosaur can inspire dread just by staring at its prey; the raptors by breathing on a window or opening a door. The T. rex goes for broader gestures: tipping over that rickety van, gobbling half of a lawyer, and shaking the other half like a cat with a mouse between its teeth. (And if you miss the book's creepiest scene, where the T. rex curls its tongue around a child hiding inside a waterfall, it's not here because, Spielberg says, "the tongue we made...