Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decisions were hailed by prosecutors, who have already relied on the federal forfeiture provisions to grab more than $600 million in property from drug traffickers. Said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh: "This is a notable victory in the war on drugs." The rulings were denounced, however, by defense attorneys who fear that the fate of both their livelihood and their clients may depend on the whim of law-enforcement officials. "No one who has law school loans, a mortgage to pay and kids to feed can afford to practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association...
...most of the 1980s, "people are starting to demand that corporations live up to the expectations that we have of them as citizens," says Alice Tepper Marlin, executive director of the Manhattan-based Council on Economic Priorities. While most Americans still feel confident about the economy and business in general, consumers have become increasingly aggressive in taking corporations to task for misbehavior and irresponsibility. Among the concerns: investment in South Africa, environmental pollution, hazardous products, offensive TV programming and testing on animals. Today's campaigners for corporate accountability, unlike those in past consumer movements, are drawn from the mainstream...
...buyouts have eviscerated hundreds of companies and cost thousands of employees their jobs while lining the pockets of many CEOs and investment bankers. From 1977 to 1987, executive pay and bonuses jumped 120%, vs. 80% for factory workers' wages. Says Elmer Johnson, a retired executive vice president of General Motors: "The best minds are not creating wealth but just transferring and churning...
...could be saved if we didn't actually put these in the newspaper and just sent them straight to the Pulitzer jurists instead. So these people have to read hundreds of heavy, huge entries, every one of them earthshakingly important. And that makes them really hostile toward journalism in general. Then they have to go out into the streets of New York and get into the subway at rush hour both ways. One of my entries was a vicious and unfair attack on New York City, and the other was a vicious and unfair attack on the Pulitzer Prizes...
...Chip cookies and milk after a night on the town. One call to housekeeping will produce not only fresh towels and ice cubes, but also games, books, diapers and the use of a Nintendo video game. A pediatrician is on call round the clock. "Our business has doubled," says general manager Stan Bromley, who began emphasizing service to children about two years ago. "We gave away 1,200 comic books in 1988 -- more than we sell orders of caviar...