Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time was when T. Boone Pickens was the toast of Texas, a relentless raider who could outwit all those corporate bigwigs back East. Lately, though, Pickens' lone star seems to have fallen. His efforts to take over Homestake Mining, a leading gold producer, and KN Energy, a natural-gas company, have fizzled. Because of the continuing slump in the oil patch, profits at his Mesa Limited Partnership have dropped from $70.6 million in 1986 to $31.9 million in 1987, a performance so poor that Pickens has had to borrow money to pay dividends...
...Bruskin and other living artists, some of whom could scarcely show their work two years ago and still have to scrounge for materials and studio space. They will receive 60% of the auction prices -- 10% in pounds that they can use abroad and the rest in so-called gold rubles, which have up to five times the purchasing power of ordinary rubles. (The Soviet state will get 32%, and Sotheby's the remaining 8%.) Two relative unknowns, Svetlana Kopystiansky and her husband Igor, were stunned as Pop Singer Elton John put in a winning bid of $75,000 by telephone...
...stardom in La Strada and Zorba the Greek. The signal film was West Side Story. It said Latins were no longer domesticated birds of colorful plumage; now they were a social problem, a political cause set to barrio rhythms. What kind of guarantee was that for box-office gold...
...Farrar did have something special: the courage to be in the vanguard of a movement that is transforming the face of American business. Like Farrar, millions of women are setting up their own businesses and pursuing the entrepreneurial pot of gold that used to be mostly a man's dream. While there have always been a few women with the initiative and opportunity to start a company from scratch, they were the exceptions. No longer. At least 3.7 million of the more than 13 million sole proprietorships in America are owned by women, nearly double the 1.9 million such businesses...
Whether they are rising from the bottom of the economic scale or struggling to pursue careers while raising their children or have simply grown restless working for others, women entrepreneurs have become, in the words of the Small Business Committee report, a "gold mine of human capital." That mine has already tapped into a rich lode, and if the Government leads the way in - reducing discrimination against women in business, the gold rush will keep on gathering momentum...