Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first gulp isn't as hard as the second [one]," says Jerome T. Murphy, dean of the graduate school of education...
...investments go, that's not exactly blowing the roof off. But take risk into account and tack on the tax and leverage benefits of a mortgage, and you have an asset that in coming years just might (gulp!) beat the stock market. Should you sell all your stocks and hire a carpenter? Of course not. For convenience and superior long-term returns, stocks remain the way to go. But real estate rises about as fast, and while you can't easily sell your house to capture the gain, you do get to live in it. Here...
...have contributed to the Huizenga stash in some small way. Now the man who built what has become waste-giant WMX Technologies, video-king Blockbuster Entertainment and perhaps the biggest collection of sports properties anywhere (Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers, Florida Marlins) wants you to make another contribution. And--gulp--this time he's thinking...
...gulp!--has Venezuela. For the past 50 years, Pepsi had been the choice of generations of Venezuelans, holding a 40% market share; the country of 21 million was one of Pepsi's Top 10 global markets. The relationship was cushioned by the friendship between PepsiCo boss Enrico and Oswaldo Cisneros, CEO of Embotelladras Hit de Venezuela, the Pepsi bottler there. But Cisneros became a Coke convert for a reported price of $300 million, a whopping chunk of cash for half interest in the business. The swiftness of the deal left Pepsi's regional president, Alberto Uribe, sputtering with rage: "Oswaldo...
...fourth water alert in 12 months, the mayor tried to calm the populace by calling a press conference. With cameras whirring, Marion Barry dramatically held up a liquid that residents had earlier been warned by health authorities might kill the tropical fish in their aquariums, took a lip-smacking gulp and pronounced it "D.C.'s finest." Citizens were, of course, happy to see that the mayor was drinking nothing stronger than water, but wondered what could be impairing his judgment so severely that he blamed the media and his very own health commissioner for the water panic--not the fact...