Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tisch operation is remarkably fat-free. Loews' Manhattan headquarters houses only 60 employees, less than .3% of the conglomerate's total work force. That spare staffing may enable Loews to move quickly when a good business opportunity is spotted. The chain of command is short, and word reaches the top quickly...
...when the Harvard football team, per custom, is being crunched by an opponent with less academic panache: "That's all right, that's O.K., You're gonna work for us someday!" This attitude seems even more pronounced in the graduate schools, whose degrees can be a passkey to a fat job. Harvard M.B.A.s are getting as much as $80,000 a year in starting salary...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine Kurt J. Isselbacker '46 said biotechnological techniques can be used to change the nature of plants and animals, and to reduce the fat content of food. "It behooves us to reduce our fat intake from 42 to 30 percent of carbohydrate intake...
...pirates. It's S.E. Hinton's rewrite of Leave It to Beaver. It is, in other words, a self-conscious elegy to the reckless dreams of youth. The film's four young friends -- sweet, smart Gordie (Wil Wheaton), take-charge Chris (River Phoenix), feisty Teddy (Corey Feldman) and fat Vern (Jerry O'Connell) -- are forever stopping in their tracks to proclaim, "I'm in the prime of my life," or "Kids lose everything unless there's someone to look after them." Does any twelve-year-old talk with such analysand self-awareness? The boys may be just scruffy outsiders...
...them real estate moguls, took the gamble and created the U.S.F.L. The twelve-team league opened in 1983 with a new twist: it played not in the fall but in the spring and summer, thereby testing aficionados' appetite for year-round football. Over the next two years, other fat-cat fans, including New York City's Donald Trump, bought in to swell the league to 18 franchises...