Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sweeney hopes to exact his revenge on Turpin and his henchman, Beadle Bamford (Wayne Johnson), by luring them to his barber chair, then slitting their throats. In fact, he decides to kill everyone, rich or poor, who sits in his chair--the rich because they are evil and the poor because they are miserable. Mrs. Lovett thinks this is a fine plan, since the pie business has been slow, and meat is scarce... Karl Marx, meet the Leatherface family...
Traditionally, investment banking, with its glorified salaries and 100-hour work weeks, has attracted Harvard seniors who dream of business school and of getting rich. However, first-and second-year financial analysts who graduated from Harvard are warning prospective recruits that the field has lost a lot of its prestige because of the crash...
...Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets to the way rich people talk without opening their mouths, but in the end he made chicken a la king comical. And in this sparklingly crabby sequel to his previous collections of columns, Uncivil Liberties and With All Disrespect, he is also amusing about George Shultz, South Yemen and political mottoes (he favors "Never...
...increased cooperation, things have not always gone smoothly. The sorest point has been the case of U.S. Commodities Broker Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland in 1983 with the largest delinquent tax bill in American . history: $48 million. In 1982 a federal judge in New York ordered a Swiss company owned by Rich to submit documents that would prove his tax delinquency. After the judge threatened to impose a $50,000-a-day fine on Rich's company, the fugitive agreed to supply the papers. But just as the documents were to be shipped to the U.S., they were impounded...
Switzerland eventually released some of the documents to the U.S., but bitterness over the affair helped lead to the new memorandum. In it, Switzerland agreed to speed up the legal help it offers the U.S., while Washington pledged not to use "extraterritorial power," as in Rich's case...