Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Forbes made low-interest loans available to any staffer with more than a year's service, fewer than 50 employees owe the company money. As spokesman Don Garson put it: "I'm sure many of us are saying, 'Damn it, why didn't I borrow something...
February 4: After revamping my resume, I went over to my friend's room to borrow a few bond envelopes. She was playing TETRIS. She was good. Really good. I sat down and watched her fit the little pieces into the spaces with the eye of an architect...
...main McElroy succeeds very well, though he sometimes overstrains his argument and has not been able to borrow all the paintings he needed. A book hovers behind this exhibition, a multivolume work by various authors that is one of the great scholarly efforts of the 1980s: The Image of the Black in Western Art, published by the Menil Foundation and Harvard University Press...
...bases try to make Antarctic life as enjoyable as possible. At McMurdo Station, the continent's largest town, the 1,100 or more summer residents can hang out at the four Navy bars, use a two-lane bowling alley, take aerobics classes at the gym, and borrow videotapes from a library. Recent social events included a chili-cooking contest and an amateur comedy night. Even at the South Pole Station, home to no more than 90 hardy workers, there is an exercise room, a sauna, a poolroom and a library equipped with wide- screen...
...atmosphere of the 1980s, along with actual crimes, spread a general sense that anything goes. Get rich, borrow, spend, enjoy. Not only Gordon Gekko said greed is good; so did Ivan Boesky, the dapper king of arbitrage, before he ended up going to prison (Gekko presumably landed there too). And the close of the decade was symbolized by Boesky not just going to prison but also emerging on leave in a long white beard that made him look like some reincarnation of the Ancient Mariner or King Lear...