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...meantime, IGBE invested the customers' money, earned interest on it, and waited for metals prices to dip so that the company could pay less for the gold or silver sent to the client. The scheme worked well from 1980 to mid-1982, when metals prices were on a downward trend. But late last year prices started to rise, and the bullion often cost the company more than customers had paid. Says Attorney Tew: "The house of cards collapsed...
...always vibrant, regardless of the date, and the characters are vividly drawn people with distinct, realistic personalities. All one could have asked for from the script is a longer third act: Priestley is a bit utilitarian, presenting episodes that neatly explain how the Conways' individual fortunes began their downward spiral, but are thin on the rich incidental action he writes so well...
...Burton are nightmarish, but do they belong in the same litany of the horrifying as Vietnam and Hitler's diaries? Much of the material is tired and overdone--comments like "and they wanted us to grow up to like the characters on situation comedies," and "I just hated the downward mobility of the hippies" are just a little too convenient...
...scene tickles the imagination and captivates the eye. The Wacky WallWalker, as it is called, is a sticky, rubber, eight-legged object that exists to be thrown at a wall or window, on which it alights, shudders, flips, turns, wriggles and lurches downward, shimmying like a pixilated octopus...
That economic strengthening, in turn, has helped convince a number of politicians and businessmen that Volcker deserves renomination. Inflation, for example, continues its downward drift. In March, producer prices fell .1%, while industrial production rose for the third straight month. Unemployment is holding high at above 10%, but it is down from the 10.8% peak in December. Last week the Commerce Department reported that retail sales posted a .3% rise in March, the first increase since November. Detroit's carmakers are expected to report total first-quarter profits of $930 million, vs. losses of $77 million during the same...