Word: macke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture of two buttoned-down bankers from highfalutin Wall Street power Morgan Stanley smiling and waving their Discover cards would have looked preposterous just five years ago. These are not regular guys. Morgan's chairman, Richard B. Fisher, and CEO, John J. Mack, made $7 million each in 1995. Platinum-card material, wouldn't you say? Don't look for this pair at the self-service pump...
...when the two flashed their Everyman's credit cards for the press last week, somebody should have checked the dates. The cards were so shiny they might have been minted that morning--and not so Fisher and Mack could go on a shopping spree at Sears. No. They had already been shopping in a much bigger store: the stock market. The cards were part of their quarry, a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter Discover that signals an interest in common folks unprecedented at Morgan Stanley since it split from the J.P. Morgan bank...
...raunchy, sweet through not saccharine, and are always on the right side of the fine line separating light-hearted from vacuous. Furthermore, the band is known primarily for the quality of its music, not its extracurricular reputation, unlike other groups such as Jodeci who rely on a playa-gangsta-mack image to sell-records...
When Bill Clinton first came to Washington in 1993, he brought his kindergarten friend Mack McLarty with him as his right hand. That didn't work out very well. Four years later, his new chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, is a man he first met in 1992, and bonded with so close, so fast that even Bowles' admirers have to reach deep into the couch for an explanation. Bowles, says a White House aide, is what a 10-year-old Clinton would have considered a successful real grownup: "He has money, real self-assurance, he knows what...
Well, not exactly. Nick isn't leaping ahead with the sort of innovative live-action fare it serves up in the evenings (The Secret World of Alex Mack) but rather with repeats of its weekday cartoons like the clever Rugrats, as well as reruns of older Saturday-morning shows that were canceled by the major networks years ago. "When Nickelodeon is able to beat broadcast networks with repeats of Muppet Babies and Beetlejuice," notes Jamie Kellner. head of the WB, "it suggests the matter goes far beyond programming...