Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that coupling has expressed the conventional wisdom: a new world is emerging, a post-cold war era driven as never before by economic competition, an order in which other nations, new superpowers like Germany and Japan, will challenge U.S. primacy. At best, the argument runs, an exhausted U.S., nearly bankrupt after 40 years of containing Soviet expansionism, will have to share global leadership in the 21st century...
According to an old fable, a bankrupt depression-era investor, asked how he lost his fortune, responded, "Gradually, and then suddenly." This accurately describes the evolution of Gilliam's professional and personal life; as we are introduced to him in the beginning of the film, he is a disaster waiting to happen. Doomed, if you will, from the start...
Advertisements usually rely on persuasion rather than outright pleading. Not this summer's TV campaign starring Martin Shugrue Jr., the macho court- appointed trustee of bankrupt Eastern Air Lines. In the latest spot Shugrue, an intense Jack Nicholson look-alike, touts the airline's virtues and exhorts would-be passengers, "We're there...
...warmth may not have warmed anyone within actual touching distance, apart from Nancy, but from a podium or in front of a lens, the combination was overpowering. Reagan, said Tip O'Neill in a moment of frustration, could win an election with the votes of a group of bankrupt farmers. O'Neill, no mean blarneyer himself, was paying homage to a master...
...public servants fired since Chamorro's inauguration on April 25 were granted compensation. And the government suspended plans to return to private ownership properties confiscated during the 10 years of Sandinista rule. With those concessions, virtually every prong of Chamorro's campaign to decentralize and restructure Nicaragua's bankrupt economy has been blunted...