Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaders now fighting for the Central Artery inherit a tradition of patronage, machine politics and liberal policy. This aspect of our city is personified by politicians like the quick tongued William "Billy" Bulger, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate, current president of the University of Massachusetts, host of the state's most important St. Patrick's Day breakfast and brother to Whitey Bulger, who is currently running from...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Scopes trial creationist getting his lumps again in hit Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind...
...ADAGE IS RIGHT that says "where you stand depends on where you sit," then getting inside the mind of presidential hopeful Steve Forbes means visiting a rarefied seat indeed. Imagine that you've won the prebirth lottery and entered the world destined to inherit $400 million and a publishing empire. What might you fear most? Losing your endowment. You might squander it through bad investments, of course, but that's something you can hope to control. Any money manager can tell you the real threats you face: taxes and inflation...
...doom that many people have predicted for years. Cleaning up that mess would tax Sun's management team, possibly beyond its capabilities, and could distract it from Sun's own successful business. Even if Sun could figure out how to solve the short-term problems, it would inherit all the bigger conundrums that have bedeviled Apple for most of its brilliant, exasperating life. So the bet for Sun is monstrous: acquiring Apple could destroy either or both companies...
...great French storyteller Honore de Balzac could have written this tale of a Faustian bargain gone terribly wrong. In 1965 lawyer Andre-Francois Raffray agreed to "purchase" the house of an elderly client with $500-a-month installments, then a steep price--on condition that he would inherit the property outright the moment she died. Last week, 30 years older and $180,000 poorer, Raffray, 77, expired on Christmas Day. His client, Jeanne Calment, celebrated the holiday with a sumptuous hotel banquet in her hometown of Arles. "We all make bad deals in life," she joked to Raffray when...