Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this clunker, with its $22 billion in debt and a lineup of flashless cars. The word around the car industry is that the $49 billion company ought to be left to wither. Says James Harbour, a doyen of automobile analysts: "A merger with Nissan is absolutely the worst idea I've ever heard...
...discount, chunks of the country's financial and industrial base. "What has really happened this decade is the true inability of the Japanese to manage in a difficult situation," says ING Baring Furman Selz managing director Maryann Keller, who has studied Japanese industry for 30 years. Once unthinkable, the idea that foreigners might "save" Japanese companies is becoming commonplace. Witness Merrill Lynch and its absorption of Yamaichi Securities, or General Electric Capital Corp. and its $6.5 billion takeover of one of Japan's biggest leasing companies. Or Goodyear's bid to control Sumitomo Rubber Industries. If it is shameful...
...Kenneth Lyons of the Greater New Bethel Church, there was trouble at the Jasper Middle School. Black students had planned to start a junior Black Panther party, and a white student had drawn a Confederate flag in the sand. The principal and church elders quashed the Panther idea and sent the white student home. Says Lyons: "We got both black and white kids to remove anything offensive from their lockers." "We thought we were doing a decent job," says the Rev. Jerry Neff, a local Methodist minister. "What the murder did was to make us take a step back...
...have a better idea. How about a cooking show for the rest of us? If your Cuisinart is gathering dust, if you account for some of foodtv.com's 16 million monthly page views yet will never make Crab and Wild-Mushroom Cheesecake with a Green-Onion Coulis, if culinary debate in your house centers on whether to pick up Happy Meals at the drive-through or eat inside, then tune in to Reality Bites...
...know what she is, Guy, but what are you? The next Mr. Quentin Tarantino? Probably not: Ritchie's idea of film pizazz is to dip into his TV commercials bag of fast-mo, slo-mo and stop-mo, until you may cry out, "No mo'." The movie is frolicsome but pushy, the triumph of flash over style. But for narrative savvy and direction of actors, Ritchie is up there with...