Word: binging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing, the pen name of the author of Lloyd: What Happened (Crown; 416 pages; $25.95), has a day job as a manager for a big media company. So unlike most business journalists, he has experience with the kinds of ugly transactions the rest of us merely chronicle...
...done." This being "A Novel of Business," each chapter follows a month in Lloyd's calendar, with an executive summary for bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate lizard amusing...
They came across my desk bing, bang, boom: three books that, years from now, may prove to have been the clearest sell signal ever missed. It was spring 1996, and, yes, the stock market has been levitating since then. Sometimes sell signals are early. The first book was by David and Tom Gardner, a brother act in jester hats with the catchy title of Motley Fool Investment Guide. The second, The Whiz Kid of Wall Street's Investment Guide, was by Matt Seto, 17. The third was the now infamous debut, Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide...
...Tiffany chandelier to the old-fashioned cash registers and five brands of bourbon, every effort is made at Daisy's to create an environment any Back Bay Gatsby would love. Even the music tends toward eras long past, playing many of the big band favorites that first put Bing and Doris on the charts...
Just a few months ago, senior Tom McLaughlin raced by a tightly packed defense and rifled a shot past Princeton goalkeeper Ethan Bing to clinch victory for the Harvard men's soccer team. This spring, he hopes to repeat the feat against Tony Meola...