Word: bond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million parting settlement, or golden parachute, he still talks like a bitter man. "The whole thing was crazy," he says. "Here we built a great American corporation. Then through this process the stock ended up in the hands of arbitragers, who forced the sale of the company. And junk-bond financing made it all possible...
Nonetheless, some officials are taking measures to slow down or control the corporate wheeling and dealing. The Federal Reserve Board has been concerned about the financial impact of consolidations and is seeking to make it tougher to float junk bonds. Under a ruling likely to take effect in January, the Fed would limit the size of many junk-bond issues to 50% of the amount offered for a company. The move could cause a slowdown in takeovers and buyouts, at least until ingenious Wall Street moneymen devise new methods of raising funds...
...Holmes is also sanitized in a way that robs this film of the deliciously dark underside that dominated Doyle's work and, in films, the wonderful Seven Percent Solution. Holmes here is an adolescent Bond armed with a quiverfull of trademark one-liners and an evanescent girlfriend to give him something to worry about...
Most of the games in Harvard's 1985 season played like a James Bond movie--enough adversity and rough going early to keep the customers happy followed by a spectacular finish which saw the good guys emerge victorious...
...Crimson's season had fallen to the cutting room floor, the victim of a most dangerous enemy, one who refused to realize that James Bond always wins. Yale Coach CARM COZZA