Word: sobersidedness
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Unlike the overleveraged '80s buyouts, the sobersided new deals are largely free of debt. That is particularly true of mergers in the beleaguered banking industry, where companies are combining to eliminate overlapping branches and services and thereby cut costs. San Francisco's BankAmerica is using a stock swap to acquire...
Even sobersided economists accept that there is something odd about the Italian experience. A recent scholarly study, The Italian Miracle, does smack of the supernatural compared with the German miracle, which was 99% hard work. But there are rational elements. Italians are great savers, squirreling away 15% of income, much...
If Poe was the quirky father of modern horror, its uncle was the sobersided James, who was strongly influenced by the terrors that afflicted his family. His brother William, the pragmatic philosopher and investigator into the varieties of religious experience, recalled one of his most terrifying moments: "Suddenly there fell...
What emerges from talking by telephone to these men, at their drawing boards in Miami, Dayton, Los Angeles and elsewhere, is what lively loners they are. No longer do top cartoonists labor at drawing gun-at-the-head cartoons to satisfy some publisher's sobersided crotchets. Appearing in many...
You can look it up. For those who still accept without question the hokum that too often issues from the mouths of eminent personages, Christopher Cerf, co-conspirator in such truly dangerous works of spoofery as Not the New York Times (1978), together with Victor Navasky, editor of that sobersided...