Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Antitrust Paradox, ten years in the making, debunking the antitrust notion that bigness was badness in corporate America. Businessmen flocked to his New Haven office, willing to pay $250 an hour for his counsel on antitrust and Justice Department matters. His income soared into six figures, and he quickly paid off a small debt left over from his children's schooling and began to build his net worth...
First City needs all the cash it can get. Its loan portfolio includes $1.8 billion in debt on which interest is no longer being paid. The company's losses last year totaled $402 million, and are likely to surpass $300 million this year. Shares, valued at 41 in 1981, have fallen below 2. Because many wary customers have taken their funds elsewhere, total deposits have dropped 27%, to $9.9 billion, since...
...target paid little attention to these professional attacks. Jablonski is particularly illuminating when he shows Gershwin distancing himself from his oeuvre, finding new ways of playing his tunes at parties as if they had been written by someone else. After a rehearsal he exclaimed, "I think the music is so marvelous -- I really don't believe I wrote it!" Gershwin's appetite for popularity, says his biographer, took him even further from the critics; he could never quite forsake the Hollywood sound stage for Carnegie Hall. When a producer accused him of aiming too high, Gershwin sent a reassuring message...
...high as that sounds, the sum the Reids paid for their home is not all that unusual in the U.S. of 1987. In suburban developments from Newport Beach in California to West Bloomfield near Detroit and from North Stamford, Conn., to the Buckhead area of Atlanta, luxury houses that start at $500,000 and run well over $1 million are sprouting in unprecedented numbers. Reason: the unusually long five-year-old economic expansion and the record-breaking stock market advance have rapidly swelled the ranks of the rich. Says Ray Gentile, a builder on Long Island's North Shore...
Still, Bork has never said outright that he would strike down Roe, and of late he has even paid lip service to the judicial principle that it is better to leave certain long-settled decisions in effect if reversing them would create chaos. Bork has never declared that abortion is morally wrong, and in 1981 he testified in Congress against the "human life" bill that would have defined life as beginning at conception. Says John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee: "We're not sure Bork is against abortion. In our circles, there is substantial doubt that...