Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drexel officials are shocked by the backlash, which a spokesman calls "much ado about nothing." The firm contends that many of the bonuses were promised to executives early in 1989 and that Drexel's best and brightest might have quit en masse if such rewards had not been dangled before them. Nevertheless, Drexel violated one of the cardinal rules of compensation: that bonuses should be linked to corporate performance...
...paid $550 million in 1987 for his unrivaled expertise. In a perverse version of the trickle-down theory, lower-echelon bankers raked in multimillion-dollar salaries, and new recruits with two years' experience earned six-figure sums. The fantastic payoff created a brain drain as the best and the brightest from top colleges and business schools across the U.S. flocked to Wall Street. In 1986 nearly half the senior class at Yale applied for jobs at First Boston, a leading Wall Street investment banker...
...warns Grandma when he hires himself out to the richest, meanest man in town. Ahmed (Bora Todorovic) is a blustery gangster who will teach Perhan the rules of petty crime but will take a long time to learn how fierce are the strains of loyalty and revenge in his brightest pupil. Ahmed will finally get the point on the day he dies: his wedding...
Over the years, Ritter gradually expanded the operation to a paid staff of 1,700 and about 2,000 volunteer workers. In 1984 President Reagan called Ritter an "unsung hero" in his State of the Union address. George Bush, who considers Ritter one of the brightest of the nation's "thousand points of light," visited his Times Square center last June...
...method the Physics Department employs to insure the competency of its grads and preserve the Harvard reputation is attrition. Here are some of the tactics employed to ensure Harvard "produces" only the best and the brightest...