Word: cowboyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paul, Minn., and has long been an industry leader. Hapless Green Tree investors have seen their stock sink from $50 a share last October to just $19 before it rebounded a bit to close at $24 last week. Coss, 59, a former used-car salesman who sports jeans and cowboy boots off the job, has seen the value of his own shares fall from $330 million to $145 million. Such misery has plenty of company: more than 20 Green Tree competitors have lost anywhere from one-quarter to two-thirds of their market value in the past year...
...lieu of Kline, the Lampoon staged a tag-teambout that pitted Savage and Grimace, a McDonaldscharacter, against a group of costumed spectatorsculled from the audience. These included a cowboy,a ninja, the philosopher Socrates, a cadre ofRevolutionary War soldiers and the Grim Reaper...
When Barlow, former lyricist for The Grateful Dead, walked onto the Forum stage 50 minutes late, dressed all in black and wearing cowboy boots, Perez declared, "The prodigal son has returned...
...away from anything resembling mainstream, middle-class America. Though it's not a high-crime zone by any measure, Blue Deer is a vortex of dysfunction, its geographic isolation breeding a sense of year-round cabin fever. Fretful, jumpy and deeply divided between new-money urban refugees playing cowboy and no-money long-time residents living off resentment and odd jobs, Blue Deer is also the "New West" in microcosm...
...pull out a cell phone, this could mean that the author has utterly failed to counterfeit the past. Or--take your choice--that he has so successfully blown the dust off history that it reads like tomorrow's front page. At any rate, the hero is a respectable Arizona cowboy and bank robber named Ben Tyler, who is caught running a freighter into Havana with saddle horses on the manifest and weapons for anti-Spanish guerrillas hidden in the hold...