Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans are not comfortable lurking in drugstores, waiting for a chance to ask sotto voce for a pack of pomegranate pith, so we disguise our pursuit of Aphrodite in more acceptable forms: the pulse-racing perfume, the sexy dress, the dirty dancing, even the lofty status. No less a personage than Henry Kissinger asserted that view in the '70s. "Power," he said, perhaps with sparrow's tongue in cheek, "is the great aphrodisiac...
...second," says Robert Schrank, a management consultant in New York City. "What's a trillionth of a second? Time is being eaten up by all these new inventions. Even leisure is done on schedule. Golfing is done on schedule. My son is on the run all the time. I ask him, 'Are you having fun?' He says, 'Hell, I don't know...
...Service last year in Winter Park, Fla. They are typical of the growing number of entrepreneurs who will perform any service within their expertise, for anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour. They chauffeur people to airports, return video tapes, cater parties. "I can pick up the phone and ask them to do anything," says Debbie Findura, 35, a part- time real estate agent who has called them to fix a light bulb that broke off in the socket, remove a live lizard she found in her oven, and deliver a package of hot-dog buns...
What's wrong in all this? In Japan distributing stock before a firm goes public is not illegal; in fact, many newly formed companies routinely ask banks and other firms to purchase a portion of their unlisted stock before the public sale to prevent market volatility once it is trading. But prosecutors in the Recruit case intend to prove that the offers in many cases constituted bribes in exchange for anticipated political and business favors. If the prosecutors find evidence of a political quid pro quo, recipients could be charged with accepting bribes...
...jump-start the country's stalled economy. And even if it can, there is no guarantee that the effects will trickle down to the middle- and lower-class Mexicans who need help desperately. Says a U.S. State Department official, with considerable understatement: "The average Mexican will have to ask himself the old Reagan question, 'Am I better off than I was four years ago?' The answer will have to be yes, or we could start to see some trouble...