Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that his warped humor is not typical funny-page fare. In fact, he seems nonplussed that something as bizarre as The Far Side could be so popular or that he could be handsomely paid for letting his imagination race wild. "Maybe it's my blue-collar background, but work meant to me that you come home covered with sweat," he says. "Now I just have to brush away the eraser shavings." Larson may dirty his hands soon. He is thinking of turning his backyard into a swamp stocked with salamanders, frogs and koi. And, of course, childhood memories...
...millions of dollars by trading on knowledge not available to the general public. That sweeping form of sophisticated fraud did not merely touch the pocketbooks of professional stock-market players. The illicit profits came from taking unfair advantage of price movements in a broad range of stocks. That meant, in the end, that the speculators had pilfered from funds that countless thousands of ordinary investors had contributed to the market, in the form of their own stock purchases or investments in pension and mutual funds that in turn had bought securities...
...recent criticisms of American companies, some Administration officials have sounded as harsh as the corporate raiders. Only three weeks ago Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman launched a slashing attack on what he called "corpocracy." By that, Darman said, he meant the tendency of U.S. corporations to become similar to the Government bureaucracies that company executives frequently deplore: "bloated, risk averse, inefficient and unimaginative." Corporate raiders, Darman added, "are gaining attention as a new kind of populist folk hero, taking on not only big corporations but the phenomenon of corpocracy itself...
...this summer, his father Miami Attorney James Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year- old age requirement for those being admitted to practice. "A judge called Stephen and asked if he really wanted to be a lawyer and if he understood what it meant," recalls his mother Florence Baccus. "I guess he gave them the right answers." Probably didn't miss one. He does not really plan to practice, though, maybe just take a few cases "when I'm between classes." He is up in New York City going for his master's, then...
Last Thursday night the President attempted to persuade the nation that his decision to deal arms to Iran was merely a gesture of rapprochement, but logic suggests that those arms were meant to secure the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon. What shocks Americans about this transaction is that it seems so uncharacteristic of a President who has railed against trading with terrorists, and who appears to sense that the public agrees with his position. In fact, the effort to free individuals in Lebanon at a possible extreme cost is perfectly consistent with the way Reagan has always conducted...