Word: bidness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Ross Johnson, flamboyant head of RJR Nabisco, lost his bid for control of the giant food and tobacco company in a $25 billion leveraged-buyout brawl last year, he also lost his job. Last week RJR's new owner, the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, announced its surprise choice for Johnson's replacement: Louis Gerstner, 47, marketing maven and president of American Express...
Only in a written playscript does Wasserstein allow herself to be assertive. In conversation, she flees from all self-important declarations of artistic intention. It takes coaxing for Wasserstein just to admit that Heidi represents her bid "to demand attention and announce, 'I have something to say, and I want you to listen.' " She is much more comfortable recalling Heidi's early off-Broadway previews when she was scared that "all the people from Isn't It Romantic would show up waiting for the chicken jokes." Here her voice breaks into a hypertheatrical tone as she parodies the reaction...
...never know what can happen," Princeton Coach Pete Carril said. "Hopefully, it will help the Ivy League to keep its automatic bid. It'll be unfair, it'll be insane. But like I've always said, 'If it can happen, it will happen...
...would hope that it would," Dartmouth Coach Paul Cromier said. "It would be a travesty if the Ivy League lost its bid. One of the reasons was that we couldn't compete. Princeton has put a little damper on that argument. I was cheering for them, no question...
...certainly hopeful that it would be a help to our conference," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "There's been some talk that the Ivy league didn't deserve an automatic bid because it couldn't compete against the stronger teams. You can't get much more competitive, losing to the number-one seed on the last play of the game...