Word: byword
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...return as he continued to work from his hospital room. But following chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Goizueta fell gravely ill with a throat infection and fever and never recovered. In his lifetime, Roberto Goizueta was as synonymous with Coke as its contour bottle. At his death, he was a byword beyond his corporation: the poster boy for shareholder value, a paragon for Wall Street...
...excitedly after plugging in the final power cable in Spektr this morning. Just as audible was the sigh of relief from the Russian Space Agency. After enduring two last minute glitches which almost nixed the highly risky repair mission ? not to mention three months in which Mir became a byword for malfunction ? the station is close to being fully functional again. To be precise, 80 percent of power will most likely be restored...
...Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City, where it took just 30 minutes for fans to snap up all 36,000 tickets. Lollapalooza, now in its second season, is the cutting edge of summer concert action, and it is pioneering the new byword of touring: value-added. Superstars aplenty are plying the circuit this summer -- Phil Collins, Hammer, Bruce Springsteen and Elton John, among others -- but almost all of them, like Lollapalooza, are burnishing their marquee appeal with a little something extra...
...half-century, expansion has been the byword of American higher education. More course offerings, bigger and better-paid faculties, new graduate schools and elaborately equipped laboratories, more diverse student bodies. The emphasis on bigger and better helped make American universities the envy of the world and their degrees one of the nation's hottest exports...
Donald Trump is not alone in his misery. Hapless borrowers, crushed by debts they assumed during the go-go 1980s, have made the term "cash crunch" a byword of the '90s. The average U.S. company is so loaded down with loans that it must spend fully 50% of its pretax earnings on interest payments, vs. 32% in 1980. "The major issue facing the nation is that people and companies can't live off debt indefinitely," says Louis Masotti, a professor at the Stanford and Northwestern business schools...