Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most powerful firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties was at the center of a gold-rush culture that bankrolled corporate raiders and often seemed consumed by vanity, ego and greed. Drexel vanished almost overnight last week when its parent company, a victim of the very junk-bond market that Drexel had created, filed for bankruptcy. The firm's legacy is a debt-laden corporate America and a backlash against excess...
...decade just past. The poet Robert Lowell once wrote in an ode to a friend, "Yet really we had the same life, the generic one/ our generation offered." In much the same way, these tales of the 1980s tend to merge into one generic portrait of vanity, ego and greed. Historians may come to see the '80s in a kinder and more diverse light, but the image of the decade in these books is unquestionably the prevailing one today...
Armed with a healthy ego, a sharp mind and sharper tongue, the 63-year-old Texan has rarely if ever been known to be diplomatic. But he doesn't seem worried about transferring his pugnacious style from academe to politics. "I'm an outsider to political office but experienced in making change," he said in announcing his candidacy last month. Silber is convinced that an outsider is exactly what Massachusetts voters want, and a recent poll offers some support for his theory...
...acquired Allied for $3.6 billion in 1986. He stunned U.S. retailers two years later by besting the powerful R.H. Macy & Co. in a $6.6 billion battle for Federated. Recalls Jon Levy, chairman of Gillian Group, a leading dress manufacturer: "After a while, it became a contest of wills and ego. Campeau came to feel that it was a game and he had to win the prize." But the price of victory was a debt load that included $2.25 billion of junk bonds that pay as much as 17.75% interest...
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...