Word: fats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as "fat-assed." His blithe contention that eventually E.C. officials would preside over 80% of the national economic and social decision making now conducted by individual countries infuriated Britain's Margaret Thatcher. So does his next major goal: replacing each nation's currency with a unified European monetary system. Delors rarely takes...
Legends are tough to fight; legends with fat wallets become moving targets. "I grew up on most of these people. But I don't really like what a lot of them are doing anymore," says Perry Farrell of the cutting-edge Los Angeles band Jane's Addiction. "A lot of bands are willing to be commercial or a commodity. It's kind of like a drug problem. I think rock 'n' roll has money in its veins...
...toga out of the Animal House closet, the film almost has style to match its guts. So does Chiklis' boldly percussive performance. But Wired's take on Belushi is so lame and gross that it validates the verdict of a cop in the movie: "He's just another fat junkie who went belly...
...buyouts could be in trouble during a downturn for many reasons. Investors in some LBOs may simply have paid too high a price or accepted overly rosy projections about their ability to repay debt. Other buyouts might flounder because investment bankers arranged the deals with more concern for the fat fees they produced than for the soundness of the transactions, according to critics of Wall Street. Some studies in LBO failure...
...choicest plums in Government is a diplomatic posting in an agreeable locale. And what a pleasant task it is for a new President to reward old friends and fat-cat party contributors by handing out such assignments. Judging from the appointments he made during his first six months in the White House, George Bush must be finding that task very pleasant indeed. A study by Government Executive magazine, a journal serving public officials, found that of Bush's first 37 ambassadorial nominations, 70% have been political appointees rather than career Foreign Service officers. That compares with 59% for Ronald Reagan...