Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unknown DNA is mixed in finely with gems, you don't avoid the gems because you don't want the junk," he says...
...over $250 million in employee bonuses shortly before the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert. The bonus bonanza -- which totaled more than twice the amount of the debt on which Drexel defaulted -- helped push the firm over the edge, as it struggled with mounting lawsuits over the dealings of its junk- bond division. Now the reorganized company is suing the recipients of its largesse to recover the loot...
...junk bond dealer, it's the bestof times...
...sensational tabloids sold in supermarkets. After the editors got over their astonishment that anyone would pose such a question, they responded with overwhelming denial. No rational adult, their reasoning went, would take such twaddle seriously as a source of news. Beatty responded that the chasm between serious reportage and junk journalism, so vast in the editors' minds, was far narrower in the minds of consumers -- and in the reality of what gets printed by the mainstream press in an ever more gossip-oriented age. Asked Beatty: "Do you think that the public knows that you feel this? Irresponsible journalism should...
...questions about the "character issue" and the relevance of the sex lives of politicians. It is an issue that rounds up the usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...