Word: kiam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, the fad of corporate CEOs' promoting their own mugs with shareholder money becomes more brazen and absurd. Not so long ago, the sort of business executives featured in their own company's advertisements were local auto dealers and appliance-store owners. Then along came Victor Kiam (the guy who loved the shaver so much that "I bought the company") and Frank Perdue ("It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken") and, of course, Lee Iacocca. The distinguished silvery head of Iacocca's successor at Chrysler, Robert J. Eaton, is currently featured larger than life...
...year is 1991. Victor "Santa Claus" Kiam is making a mockery of professional football. He's wrestling with his G.M. in the press box, he's making light of a sexual harassment case against his high school football team, and he's hired everybody's surrogate grandfather as a coach...
...Bill Parcell is named head coach of the New England Patriots. At last, Boston's most laughable franchise had a big name coach. From drug problems, to sex scandals, to Victor Kiam dressed as Santa on national television, the Patriots had been characterized by turmoil, instability and ridicule. Now a man with two rings roams the side lines. The future of the Patriots finally looks bright. Let's just hope the team's future is in Boston...
Tagliabue had earlier appointed a former Watergate prosecutor, Harvard law professor Philip Heymann, to investigate Olson's charges, which had been exacerbated by allegations that team owner Victor Kiam had called Olson a "classic bitch" after the incident. Kiam has denied using any such language, but he took out newspaper ads apologizing to the Herald reporter...
...several nationally televised interviews, Kiam also threatened to shake up the team's management for mishandling the situation. However, the commissioner has instructed him not to take any action until an investi- gation was conducted...