Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture of two buttoned-down bankers from highfalutin Wall Street power Morgan Stanley smiling and waving their Discover cards would have looked preposterous just five years ago. These are not regular guys. Morgan's chairman, Richard B. Fisher, and CEO, John J. Mack, made $7 million each in 1995. Platinum-card material, wouldn't you say? Don't look for this pair at the self-service pump...
Many Tony Toni Tone fans fretted over the rumors that the band had broken up and eagerly anticipated a new album. Their last album, Sons of Soul, which posted platinum sales and recieved critical acclaim, was released back in 1993. The band members had been devoting much of their time to producing and writing for other artists, including A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Total and Tevin Campbell. Raphael Saadiq says that fans' expectations helped motivate the group to go back into the studio, and fans will not be disappointed with the band's latest effort...
...pretentious quirkiness without the platinum popularity to back it up can begin to feel a little Norma Desmondish, and the Artist has been suffering from dwindling sales for almost a decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple...
...wallets (the typical user carries six or seven different cards), the 7,000 banks and companies that issue all this credit are struggling to protect their profits and gain whatever edge they can. For some this has meant flashy new offerings like the $100,000 (as in credit line) Platinum Plus card that M.B.N.A. America Bank of Wilmington, Delaware, launched earlier this year. (Just tell that Rolls-Royce dealer to put it on the card.) For others, like GM, it has meant cutting back enticements that proved too expensive to maintain. For still others, like Apple Computer, which lured spenders...
...This Week Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city's sobriety into question. When Billy Payne appeared on Moscow TV live (via satellite) this year, extending "a most warm Southern welcome," he was standing just across from the new city jail and next to a topless...