Word: tins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tin Men is the middle-class tragedy played as sprightly farce. B.B.'s virgin Caddy, with one-sixteenth of a mile on it, collides with Tilley's car. B.B. steals Tilley's restless wife (Barbara Hershey). Tilley defenestrates his wife's clothes and assaults the intruding B.B. with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows...
...protected their top executives with golden parachutes -- those infamously generous severance packages, sometimes running to millions of dollars, guaranteed in a hostile takeover. Now, more and more firms are offering similar, if more modest, payoffs to their rank and file who might lose their jobs in a takeover. Dubbed "tin parachutes," the payments sometimes reach 250% of an employee's annual salary. Webb Bassick, a partner at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm, estimates that as many as 15% of all large public companies have such packages. Among them are Mobil, America West Airlines and Diamond Shamrock, an oil conglomerate. Says...
...late afternoon the lecture is coming to a close, but the best is still to come. Tonight, and probably continuing far into tomorrow morning, there | will be a seisiun, as in jam seisiun. Fledgling pipers will bring out instruments they really know how to play -- fiddles, hammered dulcimers, tin whistles, mandolins -- and dream of a day when they might join the elite. When a good seisiun is in the air, the word spreads, and the chance to play with not just one but five or six of the best pipers in the country all at once will bring out Irish...
...afternoon Moses and his guest came to the Morijo Loita Primary School, a windswept arrangement of tin-roofed buildings on a bare hillside a few miles from Moses' boma. Several dozen schoolchildren were gathered in a classroom of the sort that made one think of the places where Abraham Lincoln went to school on the Indiana frontier. The children sat in rows at long crude benches. They were asked about their encounters with the wild animals, in reality and in dreams. A boy named Seketo told of being chased by a lion once while he was herding cows...
...jock? Study the effects of your own model of tyranny on a tin of cookies. If lit is your thing, experience deconstruction in a concrete...