Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with an initial pressing of 8 million copies. What remains to be seen is whether it can come even close to Jackson's 1982 Thriller, which sold 48 million copies worldwide. His label, Sony's Epic division, is coaxing customers with a huge promotional effort. Twin Peaks director David Lynch filmed a trailer playing in movie theaters and on TV. K Mart outlets are pushing the album in half a dozen locations in each store. Working against the hoopla: mixed reviews like Daily Variety's downbeat verdict that "this album won't be the economic miracle the industry is waiting...
...paper and putting on lavish spreads at Washington social functions. The new proprietor pocketed $60 million in exchange for taking on the News and its debt, but the paper still loses money -- between $30 million and $40 million a year, estimates John Morton, a newspaper analyst at Lynch, Jones & Ryan in Washington...
...other words, he didn't derive self-esteem from multiple sources. He was a ball-park rat. There may not have been anything else for him to do. People like Rose and Levine and Milken seem like fundamentally limited men. In the business world, look at Peter Lynch, who walked away from running Fidelity's Magellan fund with the express purpose of spending more time with his family and charities. Likewise, Sam Walton, one of the richest men in America, who has steadfastly maintained a commitment to benefit the people of Arkansas, motivate his employees and live modestly. These leaders...
...Cajuns are as different from New Orleanians as New Orleanians are from Protestants in the rural north. Yet all Louisianians share something that sets them apart -- at least in their own minds -- from other Americans. They are bound, in the words of Bill Lynch, a former newspaperman who now serves as the state's inspector general, "by our unforgiving history." It is a paradoxical chronicle of political corruption and roguishness, of fabulous oil wealth and red-clay poverty, of exile and immigration, cultural blending and racial divides...
...want to experience the thrill of life and the victory of getting rich quick, cancel your Merrill Lynch interview. Don't apply to summer school. And definitely don't answer phones or file at a relative's office. During these months of applications and interviews, sit on the sidelines. None of these experiences are going to pay the bills or enhance your appreciation of what you've learned at school...