Word: gekko
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...Street, as the stock market climbed and the dollar strengthened. Venture capital firms and the first hedge funds cropped up; savvy traders earned seven-digit bonus checks. On the back of the success of “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and the popularity of Gordon Gekko, the “greed is good” phenomenon made banking sexy. And major firms began aggressive recruitment schemes at top college campuses, seeking the best minds to return the highest figures...
...bogeyman GM needs, allowing CEO Rick Wagoner to play the good cop in negotiations with GM's union, with the specter of a Kerkorian-led breakup in the background. GM can now go to the United Auto Workers and say "you can deal with nice Rick Wagoner or Gordon Gekko," says auto analyst Stephen Cheetham of Bernstein Research...
CURBYS (creative urban youths) work as artists, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, stylists and writers. What Gordon Gekko and Bret Easton Ellis were to yuppies, Wes Anderson and Dave Eggers are to CURBYs. They consume culture almost as fast as they create it. Enright's book implores readers to "read, watch and listen to anything you can get your hands on" and suggests 106 magazines ranging from Thrasher to IN STYLE...
...Gordon Gekko, Wall Street...
...could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded ground zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade is to find a place...