Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debt has climbed from some $965 billion in 1982 to $1.8 trillion this year, a rise from 32% to 37% of U.S. gross national product. LBOs can be especially worrisome of borrowing, because they replace virtually all of a company's equity with IOUs that must be repaid. A sudden downturn can thus put a firm heavily in hock out of business. "High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but for the entire economy," says M.I.T. economist Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate. Modigliani adds that while the debt mountain has not yet grown perilously high, "LBOs are reducing...
...iliac artery that lead to the penis. This operation is similar to the one done on clogged coronary arteries, but does not have as high a success rate. Vascular surgeon Ralph DePalma of Washington thinks that vessels to the penis are more fragile because they are subjected to sudden surges in blood pressure...
...drawing) and given monumental form by Titian, spread south and north through the influence of the Giorgionesque engravers Giulio and Domenico Campagnola. Watteau copies one Campagnola landscape; Rubens takes a motif from another, Rembrandt from a third. These hard, wiry- lined little engravings, with their slightly metallic nudes and sudden dark explosions of vegetation, are to the circulation of ideas about landscape what Marcantonio Raimondi's copies after Raphael are to the human figure: veritable talismans of influence...
Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Angel Heart) will never be a better director. He has always had a taste and talent for sudden violence, for making it explode out of ordinary contexts. That talent is well employed in Mississippi Burning: a scene in which a black congregation emerges from an evening prayer meeting to confront a silent group of hooded Klansmen, clubs at the ready, is a little masterpiece of terror...
...Brian Urquhart, after 41 years at the United Nations, praises the sudden "outburst of common sense" in the world. Next week his efforts get rewarded when he helps pick up a Nobel Prize...