Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep--mints an instant $1 million for each of those CEOs. That's pay for showing up, not pay for performance. A growing number of CEOs get so-called megagrants, which are grants of stock options valued at more than three times the CEO's annual salary and bonus. Such grants are an increasingly...
...acting but big on charm. Their parents, played by Cooper and Kollmuss, delight the audience with their pining adoration for each other masked by their noble haughtiness. While Driscoll's voice is not as strong as the others,' his kind and dreamy demeanor makes the Vicar's character an instant favorite, drawing both sympathetic sighs and peals of laughter from the audience. Tattenbaum and Sheflin, who play Constance and Mrs. Partlet, give commendable performances both vocally and dramatically, through Sheflin runs out of fresh facial expressions rather quickly. The minor characters, such as the Notary and the village chorus, manage...
...with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon along with such worthy popular entertainments as Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Her book-club selections are instant megasellers, even when, like The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton, they have fallen into virtual obscurity. The result for publishers has been happy confusion. The lucky books are rushed back to the presses for multiple, emergency printings, and publicists are running in circles trying to play the new game...
Laura Ingraham, the CBS and MSNBC analyst, is as hard as a diamond. Her killer views against gays, feminists, gun-control advocates and welfare stand out even in that booming segment of the instant-pundit industry: right-wing women commentators. That's why her recent essay in the Washington Post apologizing for her rabid intolerance of gays dropped like a bombshell. Notorious in her student days for vilifying "sodomites" in the Dartmouth Review--and for sending a reporter to tape a Gay Students Association meeting, then naming names--she wrote that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity...
...instant success at Harvard, helped undoubtably by his attractive personal style," Darman says...