Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of Mario Cuomo's default, meanwhile, the six major Democratic candidates are looking to the Granite State as the first major showdown in what has suddenly become a wide-open scramble for their party's nomination. For now, the one clear winner is New Hampshire; after three years of dismal economic news, the locals can look forward to a quick-shot infusion of cash from the candidates and the hordes of journalists covering the contest. At least four of the Democrats will spend $530,000 apiece, the maximum allowed in the primary. On top of that, the Administration...
...need to meet the demands of the American car market or harness the spirit of innovation. From the homogeneous vantage points of Japan and Germany, the exuberant free thinking seems to be a function of L.A.'s slam-bang Anglo-Afro-Latino-Asian ethnic mix -- cultural democracy by default. "The Southern California area is like a melting pot -- there are so many different races," says Mitsubishi vice president Satoru Tsujimoto. "From those different backgrounds, there are many different values. So there are many different designs." For companies acutely conscious of their need to sell cars all over the world...
...egomaniacal as this guy says, what am I doing here? It's a grouchy, spoilsport question, whose answer probably is that tennis watching is for those of us who always wanted to throw our oatmeal on the floor when we were little but were afraid the referee would default...
...Tisch, the Loews chairman who had never fired an employee before taking over CBS in 1986, is portrayed as a Wall Street trader with no strategic vision and few management skills. Tom Murphy, who engineered Capital Cities Communications' 1985 acquisition of ABC, is the hero of this tale by default. Though Cap Cities' no-frills style caused a rude culture shock at ABC, eventually Murphy proved to be the most humane and broadcast- ) savvy of the new network owners...
...farms has wrecked the local tax base. "We're drifting back to dry-land desert," says farmer Orville Tomky, who has farmed in the county for 40 years. "Everything is slowly drying up. The cities have bought nearly all the water in the county. Maybe we'll just default and be taken over by the state...