Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says. He's about to leave for Boston, where he'll make that news public, along with a far more dramatic announcement. One more thing, he says, feet still propped up on the executive woodwork--the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., is history too. Eight stories of corporate excess are about to be abandoned. "I hate this building," says Jobs. "This building has come to symbolize everything that went wrong with Apple. It's about corporate hubris. Greed." This is not a building that can make "insanely great" computer products...
...When I come to visit, she takes her own advice and snatches a small pleasure out of a potentially prickly situation: she fixes us iced tea and scones. Sitting in the living room of her comfortable brick house in a middle-class Washington suburb without a touch of wretched excess from her newfound wealth, she readily agrees to show me where she writes her first drafts, even though it's in bed. And anticipating my next line of questioning, she offers that indeed money does make some things easier and is a great blessing but that money "doesn't protect...
Residents objected not only to the possibility that the new development would contain primarily pricy housing but also to the structure itself, citing concerns that the building's height is inappropriate for the scale of the Central Square area. The development's proposed height is considerably in excess of the height limit imposed by the area's zoning and would require a variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals...
...Graceland to the public--a smart move, as it turned out. EPE made back its full investment in a mere 38 days when Graceland opened its doors for tours in 1982 at $5 a head. Today the mansion has some 750,000 visitors a year and generates revenues in excess of $20 million. Meanwhile, EPE has steadily bought up much of the adjoining land, clearing the way for the sort of Disney-like development (without the rides) Priscilla and Soden have long dreamed of, including convention hotels and a high-tech Elvis museum...
...quite wisely reappointed her mother as trustee of the estate. Besides facilitating her brief marriage to Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie's majority has freed EPE to take greater risks; thus the real estate deals and coming clubs and casinos. Even in Elvisworld, however, there is such a thing as excess. Priscilla turns up her nose at the notion that Elvis clubs might some day reach a McDonald's level of saturation. "Then it's about nothing but money," she says, "and you lose what it is all about." All of which begs the question, How many Elvis bowling shirts...