Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-risk game that thrived on the blood spilled by corporate raiders in the 1980s. Before he was caught, his net worth was estimated at more than $200 million. Though Boesky reduced his penalties by leading investigators to other investors who were profiting from insider information, including junk-bond king Michael Milken, he paid $100 million in fines and served 22 months in a minimum-security prison. He was released...
...bragged of killing those who crossed him, and Bill Harrah, who in his 60s drag-raced with teenagers on Reno streets, have been displaced by quiet, invisible graduates of business schools. The last convicted felon to be spotted by a local columnist on the Strip was Michael Milken, the junk-bond king. "What this town needs," says Bob Stupak, the crusty owner of Vegas World, "is that scent of vice, a little sin, to stir that desire to come to Las Vegas...
...Soulful Light of the Missionary Monk Messiah" touched down on Earth via the Dunster House dining hall Saturday night. As Daryl Norcott '94, leader of this "exploratory movement of funk," preached elegant couples like "Fee Fi Foe Funk/ let's get down and do this Junk," his 20-person band took its audience into the upper funkisphere...
...Flood of Junk...
...optimistic about the future. "He sure of one thing," Apple said. "The flood of junk will continue." Still, he said American reporting has not become as unscrupulous as it was during the 1890s, when "yellow journalists" fanned nationalistic flames and tried to create crises in order to sell newspapers...