Word: ship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...data-loving analyst with government roots sunk back into the financial and moral chaos of the Nixon Administration, and a shaman-like power over global markets. Rubin, the Goldman Sachs wonder boy who ran the firm's complex and dangerous arbitrage operations and then led it to rocket-ship international growth. And Summers, the Harvard-trained academic who is invariably called the Kissinger of economics: a total pragmatist whose ambition sometimes grates but whose intellect never fails to dazzle...
...doant wo-ant yo-r life" Texas drawl. Then, there's the new Adonis-on-the-block, a certain blond, blue-eyed, chiseledjawed Paul Walker, a.k.a. Lance Harbor, the star quarterback of the West Canaan High School Coyotes. Unfortunately, two pretty faces are not enough to save this sinking ship...
...ahead of the pack. When Firmage's website came to light last November, his days at USWeb were numbered. He jumped ship--he denies reports that he was pushed--in a matter of weeks. "There are two camps [at USWeb]," he laughs. "One says there's plausibility here. The other says...
That doesn't mean they don't have their discontents. Their work, the constant unstitching and restitching of 200-ft. barges into the tow, can be tedious when not frenzied. Their month-long absences are like those of truckers, except that calls home over ship-to-shore phones are prohibitively expensive. Recounts Grainger pilot Kip Brown: "Three days after my daughter was born, I caught a boat in St. Louis for 60 days. My wife didn't stand for too much of that. The second marriage, two sons, pretty much the same. I got one now I just married...
...pigs and lady sumo wrestlers. Nelson's next project is Crash Test, in which producers pick things to blow up. (The first two ideas: exploding 1,000 parking meters and throwing a Corvette off a building.) Meanwhile, Lachman is working on a show in which he'll sink a ship and tape it going down in real time. By then, with luck, we'll all be watching cable...