Word: reals
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...economy is also especially vulnerable to shock waves from overseas. A panic in Japan's superheated real estate market would shake Japanese lenders and help trigger a global slump. So could the chaos that would ensue if the Soviet Union's restive republics plunge that country into civil...
Most Overleveraged Spin-Off Donald Trump's securities were revealed to be guilt-edged when he went public with an illicit dividend, model Marla Maples. Ivana's projections for a divorce settlement plummeted when the Donald's teetering real estate empire had to give credit where credit was due. Principle was lacking all round. Interest dwindled...
Then came the real bombshell: "I am resigning." As cries of outrage and surprise sounded through the hall, Shevardnadze waved his hands and added, "Don't react, and don't criticize me. Let this be my personal contribution, my protest against the advance of dictatorship. I believe that to resign is my duty as a man, as a citizen, as a communist. I cannot reconcile myself to what is happening in our country and the trials awaiting our people...
...Fair in Love and Show Biz Andrew Lloyd Webber brought Aspects of Love to Broadway in more ways than one. Critics found the hit musical's score overwrought and the plot unlikely. In real life, the composer highlighted one of love's least admirable aspects when he announced a separation from wife Sarah Brightman and helpfully included the name of his mistress in the press release...
Bush, unlike Professor Woodrow Wilson or even self-taught Harry Truman, is no historian. But he has never been beyond the shadow of conflict. As a young man, he remembers, he was "a little bit" aware as the Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that...