Word: comedownance
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Thus says the socially insecure world conqueror Tamburlaine, in Christopher Marlowe's play of the same name, to Bajazeth, Emperor of the Turks. Tamburlaine puts the defeated Emperor in a cage and has him wheeled around to subsequent battle sites. Quite a comedown for the Emperor. And quite an ego boost for Tamburlaine, the former shepherd...
...healthier partners. Instead of the robust annual sales growth of 15% to 20% that the industry enjoyed in the early 1980s, computer revenues will expand an estimated 6% to 8% during the next few years. That pace would delight most industrialists, but among computer makers it represents an abrupt comedown. Profits are being squeezed even more. Last week the world's No. 1 and No. 2 computer makers announced sharply lower earnings during the most recent quarter. IBM said its profits declined nearly 30%, to $877 million, and Digital Equipment's earnings were off more than 32%, to $150.8 million...
...urging of Giacalone, Gotti has been denied bail and currently resides in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. It is a comedown for the flashy, fastidious man who likes driving his black Mercedes 450 SL, sampling the delicately prepared pastas at little-known Italian restaurants, and playing the courtly gentleman in his double-breasted $1,800 suits. At 45, Gotti -- his once lean figure having become stocky but his imperious gaze just as chilling -- is a mixture of the old and new Mafia styles. Like the traditional mobsters, he does not flinch at the promiscuous use of violence; informers report...
...Welshman Timothy Dalton, 38, who has played Shakespeare as well as gracing such sudsy TV mini-series as Mistral's Daughter and Sins, got the part. "Connery and Moore are tough acts to follow," says Dalton, practicing Bond's good manners. Is playing 007 a comedown for someone who has been Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew? Not at all, says Dalton. "Bond is one of the few major roles for British actors...
Iacocca intends to follow the LeBaron this year with an other convertible, a Chrysler Town and Country, nicknamed the Woody, because it is patterned after postwar station wagons that were wood-paneled on the outside. The new car's wood is plastic - some critics say cheesy - and a comedown from the snappy-looking LeBaron. For next year Iacocca is planning still for new convertible, a two-seater that will sell for $20,000 and look shamelessly like a Mercedes; he even refers to it as "the Mercedes...