Word: goldener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their view, many of those battles led to substantial portfolio losses for investors as beleaguered corporate executives paid off would-be takeover artists with greenmail, adopted so-called poison-pill measures to dissuade unwanted suitors by making their firms less attractive targets, or handed themselves fat settlements known as golden parachutes. All too often, argues New York's Goldin, "the shareholders have gotten short shrift...
Michael Tucci, who played Jerry Golden, the head of the Law Review, calls The Paper Chase the classiest time he spent in the business. Although the location is never directly stated in the series, he says, "When I did it, I always thought of it as Harvard. Harvard's the best. It speaks for itself...
...from applying; nearly everyone even remotely qualified tries. Getting in certifies one's standing as the very best the country has to offer. Prestige has never been higher, diversity never greater, a Harvard diploma never more an indication of excellence: "they're so good, they get it free." A golden age of education--and it only costs one month's interest. The overall principle remains untouched and continues to grow...
Longtime viewers fondly recall the programs of TV's alleged Golden Age, the '50s. A more realistic nostalgia has grown up around the era's scruffy, fevered atmosphere backstage. The film My Favorite Year offered peephole glimpses of those times; now Max Wilk, a noted historian of popular art, revisits the terrain in A Tough Act to Follow. His acerbic novel blends reverie with naked rage at conniving, screen-deep program executives who have displaced the medium's pioneers. Although some secondary characters and events are real, Wilk focuses on an imaginary comedian, Jody Cassel, natural star and born victim...
...Ever since the weather got warm," said Karl Berberick of the Golden Temple shoe store, "business has skyrocketed. Last Saturday was like a riot...