Word: pitchman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bernard Ebbers, a former high school basketball coach, helped found WorldCom in 1983 to sell long-distance service. He has since put up numbers worthy of company pitchman Michael Jordan. Anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would have a holding worth $2,400 today. No telecom company has done better. WorldCom has rung up that performance by connecting an astonishing range of deals. The largest was last year's $12.5 billion acquisition of MFS Communications, a local phone company that had just acquired UUNet. Yet WorldCom remains a little-known empire that...
Brilliant Pepsi Peddles the useless Quixotic venture pitchman lured to Newton, while capitalist, still make Apple soda-pop Microsoft eats looking for a hit popular firm's lunch...
...STEIN is no Einstein, but the Nixon speechwriter, Pepperdine University law professor and eye-ointment pitchman is willing to bet his salary he knows more than most folks. Stein will star in a new TV show on Comedy Central, Win Ben Stein's Money, where contestants vie for a share of his $5,000-a-show paycheck by beating him in a general-knowledge quiz. "I've been reading the almanac over and over," says Stein. "I know a lot already, but I hope none of my family is ever a contestant." (His father Herb was chairman of the Council...
...Bush vice presidency. Grobmyer's plan was heard far and wide: it reached Clinton twice by letter, and it landed in offices as high as Deputy National Security Adviser Nancy Soderberg's. In fact, it so consumed White House aides that the relentless Grobmyer was dubbed the "pitchman" by an insider. But for all the boasting he did about his presidential connection, Grobmyer came away without the environmental waivers he needed to deposit the radioactive waste in Palmyra atoll, a U.S. territory where this kind of storage is prohibited...
TIGER WOODS The "Cablinasian" golf champ continues to turn his irons into gold. His latest incarnation: global pitchman for American Express. At least he's not endorsing sneakers...