Word: blissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smug. Consider that more than half the population is being left out, and if the stock market is really our ticket to retirement bliss, that must change. Individual Social Security accounts that let taxpayers direct part of their payments into stocks would be a start...
...embodies, perhaps even more fully than Microsoft's Bill Gates, the personal-computer revolution. And a decade after he bought a fledgling digital-animation studio from George Lucas, Toy Story and A Bug's Life have brought Silicon Valley and Hollywood one huge step closer to connubial bliss. Last week, with Apple's luscious new iMacs unveiled and Toy Story 2 unspooling at an exclusive TIME preview, Jobs, after years spent pacing the sidelines, was suddenly at the top of both his games...
...Familial bliss may have even helped him learn to conduct his professional life a bit more professionally. "He entered the business world a real novice," says Regis McKenna, the renowned Valley marketing guru, who's known Jobs since he was a teenager. "He had no management training, no business skills." It showed. Young Jobs was a my-way-or-the-highway iconoclast who cared only that his employees embrace his apocalyptic vision for Apple as passionately as he did. "If you had religion," recalls McKenna, "you had the job." Such absolutism helped give birth to the Mac, but it wasn...
...physician. Better hotels simply have to have one, and companies like Hewlett-Packard are hiring on-site massage therapists for employees. Big Business has had its head turned in other ways too. The French giant LVMH, owner of Dior and Givenchy, last spring bought New York City's ultrahip Bliss spa for an estimated $30 million. Cosmetic companies like Estee Lauder are competing as well, with growing chains of day spas across the country...
...some good. A 1996 survey at the University of Miami found that 26 adults given 15-min. back rubs twice a week for five weeks showed signs of less stress, were less depressed and performed better on math tests. "Something's working," says Marcia Kilgore, the founder of Bliss. "Or this is the biggest hoax since The Blair Witch Project...