Word: endlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...possibilities are endless, and I could definitely top them with horror stories of my own. Although nobody would confuse me with Ms. Omniscient of the Globe, reverse-advice attrition might just be the wave of the future. If people were willing to listen to Morton Downey, Jr. scream at them, they are open for anything...
...addition, the Harry Palms (Glenn Kessler) character is completely unnecessary and really disgusting. Endless references to masturbation do not add to the show's appeal--they serve only to annoy or disgust where another character might have added. Kessler's Dracula look, however, is very funny and he does the best he could with a completely repulsive role...
Potentially more worrisome is a different kind of credit contraction, a cyclical one. In the gaga '80s, lenders used practically every debt instrument imaginable. Junk bonds were issued in an almost endless variety of complex forms. The consumer got into the act as well. Home-equity loans and lines of credit, which are basically latter-day relatives of the second mortgages that led to so many foreclosures in the 1930s, rose from $20 billion in 1985 to $75 billion in 1988. At the same time, creditors lengthened maturities. The average auto loan is now payable over 48 months, up from...
...Pavarotti, her co-star. "So tall! And she has beautiful musicality, beautiful voice, beautiful phrasing." Leonard Bernstein, who chose Anderson for the new recording of his operetta Candide, likens her to Jennie Tourel, among others, in "the sense of vocal color, of the dramatic use of technique and the endless drive to work hard...
McDonald's has built restaurants from Seattle to Singapore, but completing the first of 20 planned outlets in the Soviet Union was a triumph over the country's endless red tape and ancient infrastructure. A joint venture of the Canadian subsidiary of McDonald's and the Moscow city council, the $50 million project fell through several times before it was finally signed in April 1988. Says George Cohon, president of McDonalds Restaurants of Canada: "When I had that first cheeseburger off the grill, I thought, 'This place is really going to open...