Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paine Webber, the fourth largest publicly traded brokerage firm in terms of revenue in 1976, has just issued a review of the 15 securities-firm shares. It rehearses the many troubles of the trade-increasing Government regulation, a cautious attitude on the part of big investors. Further, it finds that brokers have uncomfortably high ratios of debt to capital and argues that the firms' earnings are on "a fragile foundation" because brokers, like their customers, never know what the market is going to do and have no way of forecasting the level of future business. With trading volume...
...miles away. After 128 years of near total obscurity, the three-family town was put on the map abruptly by Waylon Jennings' hit recording. Luckenbach, Texas sped to the top of the country-music charts, and the album it came from, Ol' Waylon, became Jennings' fourth gold LP within a year...
Last year four Nelson singles made the Top Ten on the country charts. His new album, To Lefty From Willie, a tribute to the late Texas singer-songwriter Lefty Frizzell, stood at No. 5 last week-one notch behind Ol' Waylon. Meanwhile, Nelson's annual Fourth of July picnics have become mini-Woodstock festivals, drawing crowds...
...first place--not money, not power, but instead the glory and satisfaction that come from being a winner. The modern businessman, it seems, is driven not by a work ethic, but a win ethic, an odd philosophy that seems to reduce life to an endless string of fourth-down goal-line stands. The book brings to mind Vince Lonbardi's famous benediction to the Green Bay Packers' "Winning isn't everything--it's the only thing". The thought is not a soothing...
...producing a fine product, the Jungle Fighter, whose specialty is high-stakes politicking and backstabbing, and the Company Man, who gets ahead because he'd rather lose his family than his job--are familiar types who have had their day but are being slowly phased out by a fourth wunderkind. It is the Gamesman, Maccoby maintains, who by his natural competitiveness and daring is best suiting to run the corporate monoliths in an increasingly faster-paced, constantly changing society. Playing with both people and technology, the Gamesman combines the attributes of the other types but infuses them all with...