Word: overlording
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...Meanwhile, the corporate overlord of this writer, AOL Time Warner, recently sent out letters informing all worker bees - corner office or not - that new company-match contributions in company stock would be immediately transferable to, well, whatever other investment option we worker bees might find enticing. Do nothing, and the money still buys company stock (this strategy also works if you happen to believe in the company's prospects). Want to move it all into, say, Microsoft? Good old AOLTW won't squawk, not now or three years from...
LARRY SUMMERS (a.k.a. Satan, Lucifer, The Prince of Darkness, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, etc.): President of Harvard; Evil Overlord of the Working Class
...saying "we can postpone action no longer," announced his 16-member Social Security panel charged with putting the nation's oldest entitlement on firmer financial footing. Democrats claimed that the panel, to be led by former New York senator Pat Moynihan and AOL Time Warner exec Richard Parsons (corporate overlord of this publication), is a pre-cooked group sure to recommend some version of the partial privatization plan that Bush pushed during his campaign. And they're probably right...
...Winners BILL GATES Nerd overlord's Microsoft is the best performing Dow Jones stock of 2001. Which is like being the best general in the Taliban BEE GEES Disco kings are honored by Queen and named Commanders of the Order of the British Empire. Their first edict: declare war on Abba GEORGE HARRISON Ex-ex-Beatle may be up for first posthumous knighthood. Maybe it's us, but England's knights are a less and less impressive fighting force Losers MIKE TYSON Iron Mike goes "crazy" in Cuba and gets in a fight with journalists. As all brave reporters would...
...almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy as Harvard. He speaks these various styles of English with virtuosity - a repertoire that ranges from unlettered field hand to articulate overlord...