Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food producer based in suburban Chicago, accused Drexel of trying to pressure Staley executives into launching a buyout bid for their company. Before Staley's $220 million suit reached an out-of-court settlement in 1988, the sensational charges were the talk of Wall Street. "They appealed to your greed," says Robert Hoffman, who was Staley's chief financial officer at the time. "And if that didn't work, they appealed to your fear that someone else might take over your company and throw...
...Rocky never ran into Don King, the Boss Greed of boxing promoters. King's electrified hair stood on end when he realized that Tyson's match with top contender Evander Holyfield, a huge payday slated for June, would now be a fight between two nonchamps. King soon came to his senses. He proposed a Tyson-Douglas rematch, with Holyfield to meet the winner and ageless challenger George Foreman lurking like a threat behind Holyfield. By midweek the boxing commissions had dropped their charade and acknowledged what every viewer knew: Douglas had won the fight. The underdog was the champ...
...call to glory is heard. As Reardon pointed out, Harvard and Radcliffe alumni and fans are spoiled by the many programs which began competing on the national level in the last 15 years. The men's hockey team's national championship last April might bring with it a greed for more, especially with the soccer, lacrosse, squash, tennis and rowing programs making bids for national championships...
...gilded '80s? The new decade is only six weeks old, and already stores are piled high with books that portray the past ten years as a sink of avarice and excess. The melodramatic titles depict the American free-enterprise system as overrun by barbarians and liars, ambition and greed. And readers are lapping it all up. Just as they reveled in stories of the rich and famous during the past decade, today's inquiring minds are hungry for colorful tales about the pratfalls of the mighty...
...decade just past. The poet Robert Lowell once wrote in an ode to a friend, "Yet really we had the same life, the generic one/ our generation offered." In much the same way, these tales of the 1980s tend to merge into one generic portrait of vanity, ego and greed. Historians may come to see the '80s in a kinder and more diverse light, but the image of the decade in these books is unquestionably the prevailing one today...