Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrests also seemed to contradict the notion that charges of malfeasance on Wall Street were aimed mostly at brash young M.B.A.s with an eye for a quick buck. Wigton had been a member of the Kidder, Peabody firm for more than 30 years. He was elected last year to the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the respected regulating arm of the over-the-counter stock industry. Freeman was a 22-year Goldman, Sachs veteran. Only the youthful Tabor could be described in fast-track terms. A Rhodes scholar, he held down...
Later, in the sweet last light of the afternoon, a lion prowls in lion- colored grasses and vanishes into the perfect camouflage -- setting off for the hunt, alert, indolent and somehow abstracted, as cats are. A rhinoceros disappears: the eye loses it among gray boulders and thorn trees. The rhino becomes a boulder...
...human eye, the animals so often seem mirages: now you see them, now you don't. Later, just after dusk, Abyssinian nightjars discover the magic wash of the headlight beams. The birds flit in and out of the barrels of light, like dolphins frisking before a boat's prow. The Land Cruiser jostles, in four-wheel drive, across black volcanic stones toward the camp, the driver steering by the distant light-speck of the cooking fire...
Moses seemed to become, all at once, everything that he ought to be -- which was what the lions were as well: exactly lions. Moses vibrated with a current that contained no thought or premeditation. There was nothing in him of the third eye or the conscience or the sense of sin, but only an animal impulse to kill the lion. Moses went springing after the lion as the lion springs after the wildebeest...
...President Robert Allen, is "painful." Cost cutting can also hurt the companies if it is done sloppily or with too little thought to the future. Robert Reich, a Harvard professor of political economy and management, cautions against "slash-and-burn management" that sacrifices employee loyalty and teamwork with an eye only to short-term profits...