Word: chases
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...last year, Seatrain's losses totaled more than $150 million. When bankruptcy papers were filed in a New York court last week, the company, which had shrunk to just 550 employees, owed an estimated $200 million to some 3,500 creditors around the world, including $150 million to Chase Manhattan Bank. But the biggest potential loser, with another approximately $335 million in outstanding loans and loan guarantees, may be the Federal Government...
...dose of radiation, Tomlin's happy homemaker would suffer from exposure to the mysterious ingredients in supermarket products: everything from "tumescent tissue of bull scrotum" to a mad scientist's most corrosive chemicals. The audience would know when to laugh: at the sight of a madcap chase, at a friendly gorilla, at Talk Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents a waltz step toward popular acceptance by a performer tired of being worshiped by the few. Like former cult favorites Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, Tomlin has made a laff...
Behind all this, like a silent case of hypertension, was the huge climb in international oil consumption: 3.7 million bbl. a day in 1950, 34.2 million bbl. a day in 1973. Goodman's paper chase leads to Venezuela, where an intellectual oil minister named Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo was having heretical ideas. First: oil, a finite resource, should be conserved...
...Fort Apache begins as a thriller about urban terror. But not long after the initial murders, Gould changes tone and gives us "A Day in the Life of a N.Y. Cop." As Murphy and Corelli save a Puerto Rican drag queen from suicide, subdue a knife-wielding derelict, chase a swift purse-snatcher, (angle with a slimy pimp, and deliver the child of an unwed fourteen-year-old, the movie becomes an inner city Adam...
Hasty Pudding: a mixture of corn meal mush, spiced with salt, and served steaming with milk and molasses. --Theodore Chase in the Harvard Advocate...