Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Granary Trust still faces financial difficulties, and is short on working volunteers. Les has a long history of providing shelter for the lost, and hopes to make Pitkierie a fully operating center for the jobless and homeless youth of Fife; he is able to offer free room in the bunk house in return for help with the project. For more information on the Trust, contact the photocopied address above, or call John Thompson...
...gets two Saturdays of weekend overtime during the year at time and a half [i.e., 16 hours of extra work in the year], then the two of them as a household will be better off than 60 percent of all the households in the United States. In short, by any reasonable construal of the term, they are upper-middle class...
...drives "almost randomly" to some unnamed Southern town, gets a job as a clerk in a camera store, then becomes a successful wedding photographer. New characters keep appearing for a scene or two, then disappearing, as though this were not Beattie's fourth novel but her fifth book of short stories...
...disjointed and fragmentary quality of Beattie's novel seems to come not from any perception or philosophy but primarily from her work habits. She generally writes her short stories all in a day or two and simply throws away any that don't work. She seems to begin novels in much the same way, with just an isolated sentence and a sense of curiosity about what might happen next. Beattie once told an interviewer, "I've never written anything that I knew the ending of . . . I wonder if there are novelists who feel they know how to write novels...
...piquing interest is not always the same as sparking sales. During the last two months of 1989, Infiniti dealers in the U.S. sold only 32 cars a day, far short of the 134 sales a day of its archrival, Toyota's new Lexus (base price: $35,000). "On the other hand," quipped comic Jay Leno, "sales of trees and rocks are up over 300%." Now Infiniti's ad agency has released new ads originally scheduled to appear later in the first quarter. Prominently featured: cars...