Word: wakeful
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...Watch Over Me, a cop (Tom Berenger) is assigned to guard a rich woman (Mimi Rogers) who witnessed a murder. He loves his wife but is seduced by the lady's wealth and vulnerability. And then -- can you hear it coming? -- his child is kidnaped. The cop must wake up to his duties and rely on his wife's cunning to help outwit the killer. Ironically, this exercise in high style may have gone lame with audiences because of its accidental echoes of Fatal Attraction. It's too close, but without the kick. Scott lays an abstract '40s feeling...
...show that consumers are worried, but not enough to change their buying behavior very much. In a telephone survey of 800 adults conducted last week for E.F. Hutton by the polling firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 66% of consumers said they were "more concerned about the economy" in the wake of recent financial turbulence. But only 36% said they were more likely to hold off making major purchases. In another survey, in which the New York Times polled 1,549 adults from Oct. 29 through Nov. 3, fully 52% of those interviewed said they thought the economy was in either very...
When the President nominated him two weeks ago, Ginsburg assured his audience that he was looking forward to the confirmation process. Given the gauntlet that Bork had just run, the statement seemed gracious but a little naive. Given what is now known about Ginsburg, it was foolhardy. In the wake of his withdrawal, few were talking publicly about the long-range implications of the embarrassment. A lame-duck President who has been buffeted by scandal, a stock-market crash and the bruising defeat of his first court nominee could ill afford this latest fiasco...
Around the Ivy League, the value of universities' endowments suffered losses of at least $40 million each in the wake of the devastating stock market crash of October 19, officials said this week...
...Thatcher's ambitious program to put Britain's vast array of state-owned businesses back into private hands. But when some 2.2 billion government shares in British Petroleum -- about 31.5% of the company's equity -- came up for sale last week, the result was an enormous bust. In the wake of Black Monday, BP shares already on the market were trading well below the $5.68-a-share issue price of the new offering, and investors therefore shunned the new $12.2 billion flotation. Underwriters were stuck with millions of unsold shares, and could face losses totaling $1.7 billion. Earlier, British...