Word: wagonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Decker, Galluccio has only recently joined the affordable housing band--wagon, and has no record of supporting affordable housing initiatives on the City Council...
Investors large and small who had put money overseas in search of diversification, or simply higher returns, were sorely disappointed last week. Day after day, one giant U.S. bank after another came forward, like sheepish A.A. members fallen off the wagon, to confess they had succumbed to the lure of big returns from Russian investments on which--surprise!--the Yeltsin government has defaulted. Citicorp announced that its earnings for the third quarter will be cut by about $200 million in Russian losses. The price tag at Bankers Trust, about $260 million; at brokerage firm Salomon Smith Barney, $360 million...
...sold with a revolutionary no-pressure style of salesmanship. Saturn has won high praise for winning consumers away from the likes of popular Toyota and Honda. Trouble is, corporate infighting over resources has prevented GM from upgrading Saturn's basic design or adding a new model since the station wagon was introduced in 1992. Worse yet, other GM divisions pump out small cars to compete with Saturn...
...Marine Band has played at the inauguration of every President since Thomas Jefferson (he gave it the name "the President's own"), and both George Washington and Adams earlier heard it perform. In 1848, when a wagon hauling the 24,500-lb. cornerstone of the Washington Monument broke through a bridge, the Marine Band hurried to the site and, by that day's accounts, played "spirited melodies" to inspire the workmen...
Although Fine and Weis are careful to point out the flaws of scapegoating, they too jump on the blame band wagon. Ostensibly, a cause for this economic hardship is required in their analysis; they attribute it as "demonic" legislation passed by congress. But an egregious analytical flaw creeps in. The authors never explicitly detail the legislation or explore how it splintered the inner city. As a result, it becomes unsatisfying to read hundreds of pages of inner city problems and receive only casual reference to what caused them...