Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there have been more than $270 billion worth of such expansions. Yet the corporate divorce rate runs high, as companies spin off partners they once bought with great fanfare. In fact, Wall Street investors are scouting bargains among once acquisitive companies that are now dubbed "tangerines" because they seem ripe to be taken apart in segments. Meanwhile, the celebrated corporate restructurings of the past decade may be most remembered for the resulting layoffs by the thousands as employees were spat out like fruit seeds...
...Among the features: "Dole Coast to Coast," "Dole Interactive" and a way to get a free bumper sticker. The Dole site comes partially in response to the parody "Bob Dole for President" site that has already reserved a more prestigious Internet address (http://www.dole96.org/). (Their slogan: "Dole. The ripe man for the job"). Dole is a recent convert to the Internet, following in the footsteps of pages created by his competitors, Phil Gramm, Pat Buchanan and the red plaid page that is home to Lamar Alexander...
Confirming long-standing rumors that it was ripe for takeover, Upjohn announced that it would merge with the Swedish drug company Pharmacia AB. The two companies have combined sales of $6.8 billion and will be the world's ninth largest drugmaker. The new company expects to target hmos and other managed-care organizations. About 12% of the work force, or 4,000 jobs, will be eliminated...
Sometimes the tribe acts like Attila's. Last month violence erupted in Indianapolis, Indiana, when ticketless Heads stormed a fence around the venue. A few old hands say the culture has become more dissolute and meanspirited. But for every thug, there are a dozen Deadheads ripe for a religious experience. Hey, everyone has to believe in something. And in this woozy age--when the spiritual and the secular often blend, and born-again Christians are rivaled in fervor by devotees of Elvis, Mr. Spock and Crow T. Robot--it was no surprise to see signs announcing that JERRY...
...Hollywood pulse; it moves with the fevered outrage of an Oliver Stone melodram--Natural Born Killers meets Heaven and Earth. Most Indian movies are either humid musical fables or languid art films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing...