Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...raise income taxes to achieve this. Brady, on the other hand, has long objected to the quick turnover of securities by stock- and bondholders. Ever since he headed a blue-ribbon panel that investigated the 1987 Wall Street crash, Brady has waged a personal campaign to get people to make long-term investments rather than take short-term profits. A tax on security transactions, Brady feels, would encourage investors to take the longer view...
...remarkable unevenness of the film is the fault of director Jerry Zucker. Zucker just had too much success with his smash-hit comedy Airplane, and now he tries to make everything funny. This movie admittedly should have some light moments, but sometimes it seems giddy on helium. Ghost is often funny, but it is more often ludicrous...
...wackos and murderers aside, Ghost is a little like Caspar in that it doesn't have a mean bone in its body. This is a well-intentioned, often corny and misguided movie. If the hilarious mugshots of Oda Mae from her charlatan past don't make you laugh, the special effects will. Ghost is bad enough to be good, and sweet enough that you'll forgive its transgressions...
...support of a University-wide fund drive, a move away from Harvard's tradition of "every tub on its own bottom," is implicitly explained by his description of how graduate programs that make the greatest contributions to society--such as schools of education--often receive the smallest contributions from alumni...
Throughout his personal essays, Ash inserts historical background that is immensely readable, his narration frequently benefiting from personal experience. But Ash's brilliance as a scholar and as an historian shines through in his final essay, in which he attempts to make sense of the amazing scenes depicted in the previous chapters...