Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Globe Theatre, recently rebuilt in London. "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a serious effort at bringing an entire play of Shakespeare's--lines and all--to the screen is scheduled for release on May 7 (Calista Flockhart/Ally McBeal as Helena seems an odd choice, but Kevin Kline as Bottom may redeem the production...
...seems that people are more concerned about the bottom line than about the academics," says Curtis Z. Mitchell, a second-year graduate student in Yale's mathematics department and chair of Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO...
...real. The stigma of adult content has been enough to frighten away top-tier underwriters like DLJ and Goldman Sachs. But for second-tier underwriters, the seamy associations might be worth the bottom-line bump. Craig Gould, vice president of National Securities, a firm that says it is likely to be in on the deal, believes the company can be floated, pointing out that BearStearns found a way to take Playboy public: "History has shown that Wall Street has raised money for adult companies," he says. Fidelity and Warburg Pincus hold blocks of Playboy stock, while BearStearns and T. Rowe...
Sometimes, when I'm feeling uncharacteristically sensitive, I manage a tiny empathetic shudder for Microsoft. The company is getting pummeled every which way. At the top, it's taking a shellacking from the Justice Department, which has effectively painted it as the slickest monopoly since Standard Oil. At the bottom, the hacker underground is attacking it with viruses like Melissa and Happy99.exe. And at Microsoft's very core, its next-generation operating system, Windows 2000, is MIA. The long-promised Windows overhaul, due months ago, might not even reach consumers by the millennium. The company has apparently just discovered that...
...lost his Samsung job. Often people slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew that in status-conscious Korea, Samsung is at the top of the job heap, and catering is near the bottom. "Running a restaurant wasn't a respectable thing to do," says Chung. "The hardest part of shifting gears was dealing with my pride...