Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Kennedy's commitment to football, at least at the time, overshadowed his commitment to academics. Biographer Jack Newfield quotes Kennedy as confessing that he did not do much studying while at Harvard...
Along with "The Jack Benny Show" and "Amos 'N' Andy," programming is strengthened by several dramas anchored by the performances of Jessica Tandy, Paul Muni, Raymond Massie and Eva Le Galliene. Variety shows quickly gained prominence, led by the performance of Milton Berle on NBC's "Texaco Star Theatre." Berle utilizes sight gags very successfully. As The New York Times noted, "Television no longer threatened to bring theater to the home: it delivered...
...embarked on a series of American-style cost-cutting programs that reduced the work force by some 20,000 and the number of operating businesses from 35 to 23, earning himself the nickname "Neutron Juergen," in honor of General Electric's famous cost cutter "Neutron Jack" Welch...
...repeat it, your issue is the perfect antidote. We are reminded of those who have led us to accomplishments and of the tyrants who brought on disaster. If we look at our past in this light, we will find your report a compass pointing us to a brighter future. JACK D. FOSTER Barnard...
What do corporate chiefs know about the market? Individually, very little. Star honchos like Jack Welch at General Electric and Bill Gates at Microsoft can't time the Dow any better than the Beardstown Ladies. But they clearly know more about their own companies than anyone on Wall Street. So their actions as a group say something about the market as a whole. That's why analysts monitor things like insider stock transactions, new stock offerings and corporate stock buybacks. Even for wealthy CEOs, the object is to buy low and sell high, whether in managing the company's coffers...