Word: enronizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WorldCom piled on Enron and Tyco and Adelphia, as Martha fell alongside Kenny Boy, as the airlines talked bankruptcy and the baseball union talked strike, the mood of the nation soured. For the first time since Sept. 11, many national polls show that most voters think the country is going in the wrong direction...
...natural gas. Renewables are the next step. Royal Dutch/Shell has pledged to spend up to $1 billion on renewables through the next five years. Japanese manufacturers, led by Sharp and Kyocera, have moved aggressively into photovoltaic cells, which turn sunlight into electricity. And in April General Electric snapped up Enron Wind from the bankrupt energy giant. "We are on a journey to a lower-carbon world," says Graham Baxter, an executive at Britain's BP, which is building a $100 million solar plant in Spain...
...Dallas hotel last week--men whose weathered faces spoke of long days riding tractors and branding cattle--was getting such a kick out of the afternoon's speaker, the African-American Democratic nominee for Senator? Ron Kirk had them applauding from the moment he told them, "I sure wish Enron ran their business the way y'all run yours." By the time he had finished up with his line about giving the capital a dose of "what it's like to be on the front lines of problem solving," some were ready to pledge their votes. "If there...
...which freed the region from crippling hyperinflation and ushered in hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign investment. But they couldn't whip the plague of corrupt elites, absentee judicial systems and addiction to foreign capital that made Latin American capitalism as ripe for abuse and collapse as an Enron office suite. Says Stanford University Latin America scholar Terry Karl: "The Washington Consensus just further concentrated economic and political power in a region that already had the worst inequality in the world...
When struggling McCall's magazine made a pact with ROSIE O'DONNELL to become Rosie, it was as if Enron got the right to change its name to John Wayne Energy: a really sweet rebranding opportunity. But Rosie's publishers are fighting with the ex-talk show host, who gets a big payout if the magazine is a success, over how much say she should have in matters of content. Angry notes and behind-the-scenes sniping from both sides have turned up in the press, as have some unusual story proposals attributed to O'Donnell. Among the contested ideas...