Word: leesons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old British stock trader whose high-stakes gambles caused the collapse of England's oldest merchant bank is nowhere to be found. The Business Times in Singapore reported that Baring Brothers & Co. trader Nicholas William Leeson, who was working for the bank in Singapore, fled the country today, as the bank sought a criminal investigation. Leeson allegedly gambled more than the bank was worth on Tokyo stock futures, losing more than $1 billion when the market fell last week. That forced Baring to declare bankruptcy yesterday and triggered worldwide stock slides today. Baring investors and its U.S. subsidiaries...
Mostly it's bad. Though Carsey and Werner are not exactly groundbreakers, their shows have brought a less frenetic, more naturalistic style to the sitcom genre. But Grand (created by Michael Leeson, who wrote The War of the Roses) is packed with plot twists and gag lines, most of them leeringly lame. ("Desmond, have you ever been intimate when the two of you knew you weren't in love?" "I've been intimate when the three of us knew we weren't in love.") The show strives to be a wacky send-up of soap operas, but it lacks...