Word: yank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coca-Cola, which last week reported third-quarter profits of $196 million, up 12% from a year ago, was far from ready to call New Coke a goof or to yank the heavily promoted product from the market. The company claims that the combination of New and Classic Coke has made the world's leading soft drink more popular than ever. It also pointed out that New Coke is outselling Classic Coke 2 to 1 in Canada and as much as 10 to 1 in Puerto Rico, the only places outside the continental U.S. where it is currently available...
There were plenty of movies in Cannes -- a thousand or so, from dozens of countries, on big theater screens and hotel-room cassettes -- as part of the 38th International Film Festival. But this was truly, as the trade paper Variety headlined it, "The Year of the Yank." A battalion of them landed at this Riviera beach resort, and before you could say "cultural imperialism" had convinced the assembled film world that they owned...
...past, McCarthy's pugnacity sometimes led her to be labeled Mary Mary Quite Contrary, and she still seems to delight in offering a chair for her subject, merely to yank it away at the appropriate moment. In her lecture "Living with Beautiful Things," she discusses collections of great art, then decides, "By contrast to the ear, the eye is a jealous, concupiscent organ, and some idea of ownership or exclusion enters into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts...
Self, son of a Pimlico barkeep, is always a step behind his Yank associates. He doesn't have their slippery finish; he doesn't live on the sharp end, which means always flying first class and riding in stretch limos known as Autocrats. Slick's library consists of about 13 titles: Home Tax Guide, Treasure Island, The Usurers, Timon of Athens, Consortium, Our Mutual Friend, Buy Buy Buy, Silas Marner, Success!, The Pardoner's Tale, Confessions of a Bailiff, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Amethyst Inheritance. When a woman refuses him until he has read Animal...
...problem is that hot money knows no loyalty. At the first hint of trouble, rumored or real, these depositors tend to yank their funds. Says William Ogden, who was installed by Government regulators in July as chairman of Continental Illinois: "A modern run on a bank doesn't show up in lines at the teller windows, but in an increasing erosion of its capacity to purchase large blocks of funds in money markets." To ward off such electronic panics, many banks have tried to widen their deposit base to include a larger number of savers and to court better...