Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central story locks two great financial houses, Struan & Co. (the "Noble House") and Rothwell-Gornt, in a mortal struggle. Throughout, playing off the rivals, are an American entrepreneur and his 26-year-old female partner, an executive sweet who seems a bit anachronistic for 1963. For readers who tire of bank runs and stock manipulations, the author weaves in an elaborate spy story that involves the CIA, the KGB, Britain's MI-6 and the spy networks of both Chinas. The sex is rather decorous, but for sports buffs, there are rousing horse races. And the roiling cast...
...Nicholas), tells the story of magical Mr. Mistoffelees (Royal Ballet Dancer Wayne Sleep), who displays twisting, spiraling, pirouetting feats of legerdepied. Finally, Old Deuteronomy bestows a rare gift on the down-and-out Grizabella: a tenth life. The stage becomes misty, an otherworldly light suffuses the theater, a giant tire rises eerily above the pussylanimous crowd, and Grizabella ascends, reborn and apotheosized, "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside layer." This is heaven for cats and a stunning, vertiginous climax for the show...
...looneytune," Writer Michael Herr called it in his Viet Nam masterpiece Dispatches, Indochina became the demented intersection of a bizarrely inventive killer technology (all of those "daisy cutters" and carpet-laying B-52s and mad swarms of choppers and infra-red nightscopes) with a tunnel-digging peasantry in rubber-tire sandals: the amazing, night-dwelling Victor Charlie...
...Price Waterhouse senior partner, says that a survey of 83 companies using inflation accounting last year showed that real profits were about 40% less than those reported on the normal balance sheet. Another survey, by Arthur Young & Co., revealed after adjustments for inflation that airlines, railroads and tire and rubber companies actually lost money. High-technology companies like IBM and Intel were the only sector of U.S. industry to do better on an inflation-adjusted basis. Reason...
...begin to tire, but the psychological fortitude from the ergs and stadium tours keeps you going, and you sigh with relief and pull harder simultaneously when you hear the "last ten" call. You have beaten them easily. You are ordered alongside to switch the three man. Tradition dictates an exchange of "good luck" and a hand-shake...