Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cursory stroll down the length of the large room, the place has the feel of an oversized, smoke-filled branch of the DMV. Except that people aren't filling out vehicle registration applications or pouring over license renewal instructions; what they're doing, mostly, is studying the racing form. I pick up a copy and look it over, and it isn't long before I'm ready to, as they say, make a wager. In fact--in the interest of diversifying my gambling portfolio--I place a pair of bets on the fourth race. But all of my horses lose...
...True to form, BERT jumps $1.50 when trading finally resumes on Tuesday, allowing the KSF to cash out with a sizable profit. And not only does the stock's sale leave me with a net gain over my gambling losses; there might even be enough money in there for a couple CD's as well...
...methods to tot up profits and thereby boost Coss's personal pay--a charge the company denies. Coss did enjoy a formula that accorded him a salary of $400,000 plus 2.5% of the company's pretax profits. Half the compensation was in cash, the other half in the form of Green Tree stock that Coss was allowed to purchase for $3 share at a time when it was selling for more than 15 times as much on Wall Street...
...mistakes Coss continues to pay a hefty price in the form of bonus givebacks and the drop in the value of his shares. And he is unlikely ever to regain his crown as America's top-paid executive, because Green Tree has changed its compensation formula to make it less generous. Despite the recent turmoil, though, Coss will take home a pay package worth about $4 million for his work last year...
Evil is a large word. There should be a smaller term to describe the form of malevolence that sits at the kitchen table and indulges itself in the familiar dialectic: indignantly self-pitying sulk...lashing violence...remorse in the morning. Repeat...