Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...page-one editorial denouncing this dastardly scheme to harm the Dartmouth football team," Lewis remembers with a laugh...
...consumers are being sated, but many investors are going hungry. Boston Market has produced excellent food and wretched numbers. The company's rapid expansion, a controversial franchising scheme and an overly ambitious menu racked up losses of $224 million on sales of $379 million last year. The stock has been plucked, falling from nearly $40 to $3. Buffeted by high promotional costs and declining per-store sales, the company announced that its three top officers, including co-founders Saad Nadhir and Scott Beck, had resigned. Boston Market quickly installed J. Michael Jenkins, a veteran restaurant executive credited with turning around...
What once seemed an unassailable idea is now ensnared in presidential politics, the byzantine workings of phone deregulation and the design flaws of a funding scheme that camouflages the costs of a huge new federal program by putting it on people's phone bills. Only 75 days into the first round of applications for the program's money, about 30,000 schools and libraries have rushed in to claim $2 billion, far outstripping the $625 million the Federal Communications Commission has collected from the phone companies. This has left the commission with the unpalatable option of scaling back its promises...
...banks say analysts such as Peabody are overplaying the danger, and, following some minor calamities in 1994, their use of derivatives follows a prudent management scheme. But according to the Treasury Department's calculations, the iceberg is huge. The 25 American banks with the largest position have more than $350 billion in credit exposure to derivatives--that's more than enough to wipe out the $250 billion in equity capital that the same banks keep on hand as a cushion to absorb losses. Few believe that Asia's troubles could jeopardize the entire amount--that would take a global, systemic...
Sony has bet more than $110 million on its new Godzilla, opening this week on an unprecedented 7,363 screens in hopes of breaking The Lost World's record opening weekend take of $92.7 million. An additional $50 million has reportedly been spent on a marketing scheme that includes the ubiquitous tag line "Size Does Matter" and a carefully hyped campaign of secrecy about what the modernized creature looks like. In this age of Titanic expectations, Godzilla will have to bring in more than $200 million in the U.S. alone to be considered a hit. Don't mention...