Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phone Your Mother! Phone Your Grandfather! But don't worry about writing. The Postal Service doesn't need your money. They do just fine, thanks, subsisting on junk mail from J.C. Penney and subscriptions to Vogue...
...Columbus. She has been asked for an article on the quincentennial of his first voyage from her people's perspective. He is laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site of a golden crown that Queen Isabella gave Columbus. But what if it was a crown of a different kind...
...part, found the relationship between boss and worker hard to fathom. Used to bowing when meeting a superior, he now greets John Morse, the third-generation Montanan hired to run the Lazy 8, by shouting "Hi, John!" "Yeah, Kaz, you guys gotta get rid of that junk," says Chaffin, offering a lesson in American egalitarianism between bites of a roast beef sandwich. "People who run things aren't any better than us. They just make more money...
...measure of financial relief for Perelman, who acquired control of Revlon for $2.7 billion in a bitter 1985 takeover fight. To expand his cosmetics empire, Perelman subsequently paid some $300 million for Max Factor in 1986 and about $170 million for Betrix in 1989. Now, to pare his junk-bond debt, he has begun selling assets as fast as he once acquired them. What might be next? Perelman's advisers said the erstwhile raider could soon put on the block such tony cosmetics brands as Princess Marcella Borghese and Charles of the Ritz...
Deny a child an ice-cream cone? Take away those glazed doughnuts? Or that double cheeseburger, fries and milk shake? It sounds cruel and downright un- American. Everyone knows that adults should watch their diets and cholesterol levels, but is it really necessary for junk-food-loving youngsters to do the same...