Word: enviously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vance Bates, 26, had expected 1983 to be kind to graduating Master of Business Administration students. Envious members of last year's M.B.A. crop had advised him that the recession was likely to give way to brighter job prospects this year. But Bates, who will receive his M.B.A. in May and hopes to land a job paying between $25,000 and $30,000 a year, is finding that things seem to have got worse. He has sent letters to 60 employers, and fears that he will have to settle for less than his first choice, commercial banking. Says...
...First National Bank of Boston. The vacuum left by the demise of the old mills was gradually filled by such sophisticated service industries as health care, finance and consulting. Tourism plays a part, as do insurance, education, construction and a massive increase in drudging service-sector jobs. But to envious observers in less prosperous states, the magic secret of Massachusetts' success is summed up in one phrase: high tech...
Bankers and savings and loan officers have long cast envious eyes at money-market mutual funds. Reason: the lofty interest that the funds pay, which currently averages about 9%, has attracted some $230 billion in cash. But federal guidelines announced last week will allow banks and thrifts to challenge the funds on an equal footing beginning Dec. 14. The new rules permit the institutions to offer money-market accounts of their own without any interest ceiling...
Said Stoler: "I am envious of someone who does exactly what he dreams of doing, and does it so well." Suggests TIME Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, who edited the cover story: "You can find some American novelists and literary critics who can rival the quality and importance of his individual works. But no one can match him today for the variety of his endeavors and the discipline he brings to them." TIME, which is not in the habit of repeating itself, is happy to have John Updike on its cover once again...
Such stomach-churning changes are commonplace to Boesky. Says one envious competitor: "For Ivan to lose $30 million is like someone else losing a few hundred thousand dollars." Last year, for instance, he made about $3 million when Allied Stores Corp. acquired the Garfinckel, Brooks Brothers, Miller & Rhoads Inc. department stores, only to drop an estimated $12 million on Delhi International Oil Corp. one month later...