Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office one morning and didn't know where I was," says Walker, 30. Having clean underwear and shirts delivered to the office by messenger too many times finally convinced him that he should make a switch. Now, as an institutional bond salesman with UBS Securities, he makes more money and has the time to enjoy...
...pace may be stronger than the craving for financial rewards. Faith Childs, now a literary agent with the Charlotte Sheedy agency in New York City, gladly left her job as a labor lawyer for a FORTUNE 500 company. "Notwithstanding the fact that I was making a lot of money, the rewards weren't there," says Childs, 38. "It wasn't intellectually challenging. Here, the creative possibilities are limitless...
...White is the preferred and approved basic color for all structures." "Each single-family unit shall have a bougainvillea within the front-yard area . . ." What he is building is an enclave away from the trashed-out, mixed-up modern world, and he gleefully plans to earn a pile of money doing...
...glasses; his beard, unshaved since he was 17, is sparse and wiry. Born Paul LaBombard, he was, in adult eyes, a bad influence on anybody who knew him as a teenager. He ran away from his working-class family, smoked dope and organized a high school SDS chapter. Lacking money for college, he spent two winters camping out and gathering shells for a living in Key West. He was arrested at the Mayday antiwar demonstrations in Washington in 1971, and spent three days locked up in the basement of the Department of Justice. Afterward he sought spiritual growth...
...first nine months of 1989, in contrast to $26 billion during the same period a year ago. "Investors are becoming more sophisticated and cynical," says Kingman Penniman, a Vermont-based investment adviser. "They are no longer willing to finance every buyer's fantasy of using somebody else's money to leverage and strip a company and get rich. The days of the free ride are over...