Word: knights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beleagured financial writers constantly struggle for interesting ways to say that prices rose, fell or went nowhere. But someone at Knight-Ridder really scraped bottom Wednesday reporting a slow day on the German stock market. The story, datelined Frankfurt, began: "Lethargic and stuck in a 3-point range, the DAX shares index was about as lively as Dean Martin before closing unchanged from Friday in its first floor session following the death Monday of the singer and Hollywood celebrity...
Worst mascot of the season: Clarkson's Golden Knight. This person, who seemed to be a good advertisement for aluminum foil, skated onto the ice before each period began...
...certainly a black night for the Black Knight's of the Army men's basketball team. And more importantly, there were many bright spots for the Crimson in its 89-60 drubbing of Army at Lavietes Pavilion...
...brainchild of some business school students who this weekend thoroughly enjoyed the "butter-flavored topping" on their large popcorn (it's the best buy) at the Ace Ventura sequel. These M.B.A.'s are getting better and better at increasing corporations' profits. Though the average Joe might think Gannett and Knight-Ridder are deep in the hole from such a loss, $100 million over four or so years just isn't that much money--especially when we consider the national implications of holding firm...
What goes for one of their newspaper businesses must go for all. So when Knight-Ridder told workers striking at its Philadelphia Daily News that it might shut down the tabloid, it had credibility. Nine out of 10 of that paper's striking unions reached tentative agreements with their corporate parent last week to reconcile huge downsizing. When corporations wield such cold power that they can unite with each other to face down their workers, you know that a capitalist conspiracy is in our midst...