Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worst of all for Salomon Brothers, Michael Lewis, who was earning $225,000 a year at the age of 27, overdosed on greed and quit the firm to empty his journals into this brief, knowing and hilarious volume. Alas, its disclosures are not likely to be heeded. The Street provokes a book of revelations nearly every year, but the con men, the customers and the crashes go on. Aside from Lewis, hardly anyone seems to notice that Wall Street has always been a thoroughfare with a river at one end and a cemetery at the other...
With 5:16 remaining, Brown got a penalty corner of their own, and after a brief scramble, sophomore Patricia Beatini deflected a Yadao save into the net, abruptly ending Harvard's quest for a 1989 Ivy League title...
...late 1980s. That Sugar Cubes or Sinead O'Connor album that you played over and over again for a few months until it was warped and then you never listened to it again when the trend faded--if you own those albums on C.D. you won't remember that brief shining moment when you couldn't get the damned records off your turntable...
When Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson declared that there could be no more survivors in the fallen freeway, dogged rescue crews ignored him and searched on. For a brief moment on Wednesday, their determination seemed to pay off when a faint voice was heard in the rubble. But it turned out to be from a CB radio...
Stevens has been the butler at Darlington Hall in Oxfordshire since 1922. It is now 1956, and his new employer, an American named Mr. Farraday, encourages the butler to take a brief vacation in the owner's vintage Ford. Stevens hesitantly agrees. Running Darlington Hall with a staff of four, which Mr. Farraday has requested, as opposed to the 17 assistants Stevens once supervised, has been hard on his nerves. A drive to the West Country might do him good. Besides, Stevens has received a letter from Miss Kenton, the housekeeper who resigned in 1936 to be married, revealing that...