Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Already this year, deals worth $236 billion have been announced, putting us on track for a seventh consecutive yearly record. Only a day after the Citigroup blockbuster, two more pairs of financial-services companies agreed to marry. Credit-card and home-equity lender Household International will pay $7.7 billion for Beneficial Corp., which is in the same businesses; and insurer Conseco Inc. agreed to pay $6.4 billion for subprime, mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial. Meanwhile, the stock price soared for just about every mutual-fund company, bank or brokerage considered likely to find a partner...
GeoCities is not quite yet in the black. But Bohnett expects to haul in $17 million this year selling ads on his users' home pages, and he has begun permitting "shopkeepers" to sell goods and services from their sites via credit card. He hopes to take his company public before the end of the year. By then he should be able to buy all the phones he wants...
Swipe your card through, pick up a tray and head over to the hot breakfast entrees. But be careful what you choose--your morning meal says more than you may realize...
...promissory note to which every American was to fall heir," King said. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" These were not the words of a cardboard saint advocating a Hallmark card-style version of brotherhood. They were the stinging phrases of a prophet, a man demanding justice not just in the hereafter, but in the here...
...microwaved parrots and chainsaw-wielding deer. Meanwhile, animals are dropping like, well, flies at Disney's new zoo, and the American Kennel Club is rethinking its position that while Doberman pinschers are kid-friendly, Chihuahuas should be kept away from both junior AND Taco Bell. What's a card-carrying member of PETA to do? Rent 'Pet Sematary', of course (but don't let anyone see you do it), a God-Awful picture that will nevertheless leave you nostalgic for the time when Stephen King could get a $2 million movie deal for his grocery list. Think...