Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Best Popcorn: Colgate. One buck will get you one large bucket of popcorn. It's so good Orville Reddenbachker has been rumored to be offering his first-born child for the recipe. Money, however, goes to the Colgate's men's lacrosse team...
...America, where monopoly ownership has made many newspapers fair, bland and unadventuresome, Rupert Murdoch, the invading Australian press lord, set out to buck the trend. He bought the liberal tabloid New York Post and turned it into a paper conservative and vindictive in its politics and sensational in its news coverage. Many of his fellow editors and publishers consider him an embarrassment to their craft and a barracuda as well; the lack of respect is mutual ("Most American papers," says Murdoch, "do a few outstanding things, then coast"). Suddenly, however, Murdoch's bold reinvention of cynical, rowdy journalism...
...face in the rogue's gallery of corporate raiders, the types who bad-mouth managers but seldom seem to spend an honest day's work trying to renovate the companies they attack. Yet lo and behold, this widely feared raider is proving a breed apart from the other fast-buck operators. He rolls up his sleeves. Icahn, 51, is a quick learner who is imposing his no-frills ethic on some of the largest and most troubled U.S. corporations. Right now, the unflappable Icahn (estimated net worth: $700 million) is simultaneously juggling three daunting turnaround projects: the born-again...
Passing The Buck...
Planning Board Chair Paul Dietrich defended the board's delay, saying members simply "need more data to make a decision." Others, including Gifford, say they may be passing the buck to a state agency...