Example sentences for: burnham

How can you use “burnham” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It seems that while working as a consultant helping to recover damages from junk-bond king Michael Milken and his investment bank, Drexel Burnham Lambert, a hot-shot New York lawyer got caught padding the bills he submitted to the federal government.

  • I happen to own a copy of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution , a now-forgotten 1941 book that was for a time hugely influential.

  • Early in American Beauty , Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a weary reporter for a media magazine, masturbates in the shower while informing us in voice-over that we're witnessing the highlight of his day.

  • Meanwhile, Japan--the world's second-largest economy and a country that by normal criteria ought to have no trouble increasing demand--finds itself stuck in exactly the trap Burnham described: "no longer able to find uses for the available investment funds, which waste in idleness in the account books of the banks."

  • Burnham did not attack free market economies; he simply regarded them as doomed, and those who thought otherwise as naive:


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