Word: hosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what's going on here? There is no mystery about what caused the 1998 squeeze: company executives could not raise prices, no matter how much an increase might have been justified by rising costs, without losing market share to a host of U.S. and global competitors. The current rebound is more difficult to explain: competition is certainly no less keen, nor price boosts any less risky. But Abby Joseph Cohen, chair of the investment-policy committee of Goldman Sachs, gives much of the credit to corporate managers who have figured out effective strategies for prospering in that environment. To scratch...
...Taylor (Home Improvement); cable TV-show host...
...sure if all TV offices are like this, or if it was just because this program was called The Man Show, but there was pornography everywhere. And everyone played mean jokes on each other. For a week co-host Adam Carolla, who had gone to the Grammys with one of the Dixie Chicks, believed she was sending him gifts. These gifts included flowers and a 6-ft. sub with a note that said, "I will not be ignored!" TV hosts, I learned, aren't the smartest people on staff...
...still ahead of the curve." The idea of a preventative tweak ?- and this chairman?s impeccable record says it?s worth a ton of cure ?- had the inflation-fearing bond markets jumping for joy and yields dropping like a stone. Wall Street isn?t going to grouse about the host watering down the monetary punch just a little bit ?- not if it means this nine-year Mardi Gras can go on indefinitely...
Adios, Aretha. Desist, other divas. Jackie Washington has returned. Never heard of her? Well, that's because she exists only in this rascally Spinal Tap-ish faux documentary. On the eve of Jackie's comeback concert, an oily host (Tim Curry) takes us through her disastrous career: her one hit single, her flop blaxploitation movie (Whipped Creme). Whoopi, Liza and other no-last-name-needed stars contribute cameos, but it's the diva herself who really delivers. As Jackie, Jenifer Lewis purrs, snaps and belts--the complete funny lady in a roguishly funny film...