Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world. He once sold his wares store to store in a bomber jacket and jeans, and leveraged a line of wide neckties into a wider life-style empire with annual revenues of $1.47 billion and profits of $120 million. Until this year, Polo/RL sported growth rates a technology firm would envy...
Meanwhile, Sony encountered an emulator nightmare of its own--only this time the perpetrator was another large software firm. Connectix in January came out with Virtual Game Station, which allowed Macintosh owners to play Sony video games for a mere $50. Macheads snapped up a whopping $3 million worth over three weeks. Sony promptly sued Connectix, which denies any wrongdoing. Last month a judge refused to block shipment of the software while the case is pending. Though it's clearly unlawful to sell or download pirated video games, it remains unclear whether the same strictures apply to emulator software...
...typically elliptical tale, with frequent shifts between time frames and narrative voices, on a fairly basic premise: the tangled relationship between a son and his father. Oliver Single begins as the heir apparent to the legendary Tiger Single, founder of the House of Single, a high-flying London financial firm renamed Single & Single after Oliver, law degree in hand, is brought aboard by his father. The son's initiation into the family business goes smoothly until the firm takes on some new clients: Yevgeny and Mikhail Orlov, Russian brothers who offer Tiger and his son the chance to reap huge...
Tiger makes Oliver the trusted liaison with the Orlovs, who dismissively call him "Post Boy," until he grows sickened by the sort of traffic they conduct for their and his firm's profit. "lf I can go along with selling the blood of poor Russians," he asks himself, "where if anywhere will I draw the line?" So, after one more disillusioning visit with the Orlovs, Oliver deplanes at Heathrow Airport and impulsively asks to see a high-ranking officer of Her Majesty's Customs Service. As it turns out, Oliver is just the person that Nat Brock has been waiting...
...possibly be seeking vengeance. He then learns from Brock that the Orlovs and Single & Single have had a falling-out. The Russians and their henchmen have murdered a high official of Single & Single and videotaped the act to impress on Tiger their displeasure with him and his firm. The elder Single, in response, has gone into hiding or perhaps into the clutches of the Orlovs...