Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Domino's founder Tom Monaghan, 61, has always been a larger-than-life contradiction. He made a fortune pioneering a no-frills pizza-delivery business, then nearly squandered it on his own ostentatious life-style. He struggled for years to rebuild his empire and finally succeeded. Then last month he walked away from it all for the second, and presumably final, time by selling his family's 90% stake in Domino's for an estimated $1 billion to a private investment firm called Bain Capital...
Italy's gone communist! Back in the domino-theory days of the Cold War, heads would be rolling at the CIA; instead, there was nary a raised eyebrow in Washington Thursday as reconstructed communist Massimo D'Alema made his maiden speech as prime minister. And that's not only because he's committed to a "caring capitalism" rather than any kind of socialism. "This government will pursue exactly the same economic policies as its predecessor," says TIME's Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They're going to submit the same budget that brought down Romano Prodi, and this time...
...hope this is one giant domino, and that others will follow," she said...
...like the domino theory," Kristan Siqueiros '02, who also suffered a cold in the past few weeks, said...
...year The Crimson, along with every national newspaper, reported on a domino effect of financial aid policy reforms taking place at Ivy League and other "top tier" private universities, including Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. Usually, Harvard would sit up and take notice of what their fellow Ivies and neighbors were up to. However, as the student body looked on hopefully with each announcement of yet another school's more generous plans, the Harvard administration quietly but firmly held the line and supported its own current system...