Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend who just has to locate the six wine-growing districts of China? If so, consider as a suitable gift Sotheby's World Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson (New York Graphic Society; 480 pages; $40). Lavishly illustrated and superbly mapped, it compares favorably with older standards by Hugh Johnson and Alexis Lichine. Stevenson, a British expert, provides meticulously detailed information on both the basics (how to read wine labels) and the arcane (how wine is fermented). Idiosyncrasy blends with thoroughness here to make a perfect oenophile's companion...
...conjunction of the women's movement and the prominence of Black women writers provided a very powerful source of interest," Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Barbara E. Johnson says. "People who were trained in literary theory have become interested in questioning the authority of the establishment...
...Johnson, who has concentrated her studies on Black women writers since 1980, says generational changes have a lot to do with the resurgence of literary studies within Afro-Am. "There are a lot of scholars who got interested in Black studies in the 1960s--many of them are now tenured someplace, and that has been formative in making a body of scholarship," she says...
...line for no better reason than abject short-term greed; still, buyouts are popular among today's large-scale financiers, people who are no longer innovative entrepreneurs who build companies from scratch, but tricky accountants who raise dividends any way they can. Now, following the example of Ross Johnson, the chief executive officer of RJR who tried to take over the company for himself, they don't work for the stockholders--they work for themselves...
...better prices, but the same products at higher prices because a hostilely-bought company has to use all available funds to pay off billions in debt rather than research and marketing. But gee, leveraged buyouts sure make money for the people who organize the deals. If all Ross Johnson's plans had worked out, he stood to make approximately $1 billion within 10 years...