Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share. On last week's weak Wednesday, the most actively traded New York Exchange stock was MGIC, the largest U.S. private insurer of residential mortgages. Though it sold for only $43 five weeks ago, MGIC stock was up to $49 last week because the Baldwin-United Corp., maker of Baldwin pianos, has offered to pay $52 a share as part of a takeover move...
...time early this year, after further tinkering with the game, Kick will be shipped to distributors and then will appear in the arcades. Bally's development people think it is fun, but right now, no one has any idea whether it will be a lap jumper or a puddle maker. "This is the most democratic business in the world," says Mount Prospect, Ill., Arcade Owner Bill Herman. "You got a ballot box, and people vote with their quarters...
...public image crippled, precipitating his censure by the Senate. These four years saw certain newspapers carrying over 15 stories a day featuring McCarthy. Dredging up every sort of reporting on the Senator, showing the media's role change from Joseph McCarthy's mouthpiece to that of a dramatic image-maker which cast McCarthy as a villainous "bully" with "heavy dark brows" or as a heroic cow-boy who fought "smear gangs" and "parlor pinks," the book vividly illustrates McCarthy's ride on the tracks of America's media, lying and venomously spewing forth accusations...
...Easy Pieces) and Sandy Dennis, 44 (The Four Seasons), Cher plays a garrulous cocktail waitress who is hired on as an extra in the 1956 James Dean-Liz Taylor movie, Giant, when it is filmed in her small Texas town. The play also marks the Broadway bow of Film Maker Robert Altman, 55 (M*A*S*H, Nashville), who anticipates no star-director skirmishes. "She won't be wearing her snakeskin suit," says Altman. "She'll be acting. And she's come into this on the same terms as everyone else-no limousines...
...income and wealth may be economically justifiable." It's not that callousness limits his ambition; only his faith in the decision-making capabilities of the owners of widget factories does it. Everyone is a rational maximizer in Posner's world. Mr. X will be hired by the first widget-maker he sees. He might never have lost his job in the first place...