Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coined one of the most famous phrases of the 1980s: "Greed is good." Apparently it still is. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom, right next door to the Woody Allen-vs.-Mia Farrow soap opera, Ivan Boesky, 56, out of prison but exiled from Wall Street, began his latest takeover attempt. He is demanding nearly $50 million in alimony from his former wife, Seema Boesky, 50ish, a wealthy heiress in her own right. He claims that he made her "rich beyond her imagination," and that even though some of these riches resulted from his own illegal activities, he still deserves...
...tailspin that started when he was caught by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1986 in an insider- trading probe. A self-proclaimed vampire, Boesky was renowned as the "king of the arbitragers" in a high-risk game that thrived on the blood spilled by corporate raiders in the 1980s. Before he was caught, his net worth was estimated at more than $200 million. Though Boesky reduced his penalties by leading investigators to other investors who were profiting from insider information, including junk-bond king Michael Milken, he paid $100 million in fines and served 22 months in a minimum...
...years ago as a host for Atlantic City's Golden Nugget and who is paid $400,000 a year today to do the same job for the Mirage. Police had alleged that Meyerson arranged for free hotel rooms, food and beverage for 59 mobsters and convicted criminals since the 1980s, including three men connected to the Genovese crime family who showed up at the Mirage last July. Wynn argued that Meyerson had no special relationship with any of these clients, and on Thursday the commission agreed with him, voting unanimously to issue Meyerson a license...
...boys a license to lie to the public." Meantime, the industry's lobbying effort, warns Heaton, could backfire. Consumers, he says, could lose even more confidence in bottled waters. With bottlers already struggling to stay afloat -- annual growth has slowed to 3%, in contrast to 500% in the 1980s -- that's the last thing the companies need...
...point of agreement last week was that both the scientists and the - politicians still know very little about Americans' private predilections. Part of the reason so much fiction has persisted is that scientists have not succeeded in securing federal funding to do much research. In the late 1980s, Congress approved two national surveys of sexual behavior, one for adults and the other for teens. But conservatives, led by Senator Jesse Helms and Representative William Dannemeyer, killed the measures. They argued that the studies would give homosexuality more standing than it deserves...