Word: bean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is after all what drives music. "He's still the best talent finder in the business," adds Nathanson. "He's one of the last of the old-fashioned music men, and he's adapted to the times." And for music's sake, kept the bean counters...
...1980s, the former lawyer was tasting major success with a diverse group of performers, including Barry Manilow and the Grateful Dead. BMG purchased Arista in 1979, but Davis still operates virtually independently, unusual in an era when big corporations rule music. That might be because he has served the bean counters well too, finding efficient ways to achieve growth. Instead of shelling out millions for outright acquisitions of artists or their production companies, Davis puts money into joint ventures in which the producer-artist makes records under Arista's banner, while the label foots most of the studio and marketing...
...handful of Harvard's security guards accepted early retirement. Most of the guard force is being replaced by cheaper and better-trained guards from an independent contractor. In Adams House, a petition has been posted so that students can protest this obviously irresponsible move on the part of University bean-counters...
Murphy said he told Wilford to lay off the burritos over the summer, and the bean-free lifestyle has paid...
...aiding and abetting the militia," and called for "an international force to make possible the restoration of security." But presidential advisers made it clear that realpolitik ruled: the U.S. had no plans to fight its way uninvited into a territory that supplies little more than a specialty coffee bean to Starbucks. "Because we bombed Kosovo doesn't mean we should bomb Dili," said National Security Adviser Sandy Berger...