Word: plums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scott Paper, Dunlap's last labor, doing these days? Swallowed by Kimberly-Clark. How about former charge Lily-Tulip Inc.? Now a lean, mean division of Fort Howard Paper Co. Once Dunlap's bum-to-plum magic act is done lining shareholder pockets (Dunlap himself owns several million in Sunbeam stock), he takes the last sure price-boosting step: feeding it to a big rival. Then ? poof! ? he's gone...
...gratifying those in the position to facilitate your climb, a widespread sort of prostitution euphemistically described as "selling yourself." Those who doubt my claims might consider the ostensibly merit-based recruiting season and ask themselves if Dirk really went much farther than some inspiring investment bankers would if that plum job at Goldman Sachs was on the line...
...creatively multilingual Seven Years in Tibet, Brad Pitt begs such a question, as he has his way with an allegedly Austrian accent through widespread and wanton application of generic "movie accent" elements like long vowels and rolled R's. Yet this phonetic plum pudding, a synthetic dialect of sorts, fits the story's cross-cultural spirit. Ultimately, the blooming of emotion that marks the central transformation of Pitt's character in the face of Tibetan culture makes an otherwise sappy moral and politically correct focus much more palatable...
...metaphor I used was a nectarine and it was inspired by a silly conversation I had at work with some guy who told me that the fruit is a cross between a peach and a plum," she says. "I used the plum to represent his grandmother who is dark and a peach to represent the slave master...
...wonderful for UCLA, terrible for Harvard and a plum for Al Carnesale," said Richard J. Zeckhauser, Ramsey professor of political economy at the Kennedy School of Government and a "good friend" of Carnesale...