Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carlson said she is not opposed to the construction itself, but fears that the size of the buildings would "deaden the quality of the street-scape...
...soon I'm talking to a half-dozen prospective members of the class of 2002. Once I identify myself as a Crimson reporter, they crowd around me like some sort of deity--it gets to the point that another few people join our circle, drawn over by the size of the crowd. "What's going on here?" a late-arrival asks upon entering the group, as if worried that he's missed the beginning of some crucial, unlisted pre-frosh event...
...Bassett, 24, is coached twice a week on exotic machines with names like the Reformer--and the benefits she describes sound miraculous. Two hours of work with no sweat has allowed her to drop from a size 10 to a size 8, sometimes 6. Her stomach has been whittled; her hips have slimmed. She has the posture and lanky gait of a dancer. What she doesn't have is a diet, and her workout shoes--Pilates calls for socks only--sit in her closet, dusty. She's lost nearly 10 lbs. "People say to me, 'You look thinner,'" she marvels...
...with First Chicago show that the push for bigness remains intense. Just about everyone expects a handful of not-quite-ready-for-prime-time banks--Mellon Bank, Wells Fargo, Norwest, Fleet Financial and others--to be bought or to find partners themselves. Meanwhile, those same banks, and many middle-size ones too, sport prices inflated by speculation. Their high stock prices give them currency to shop for smaller prey of their own. Fertile deal territory, for sure...
...involved? You could buy the perceived targets, hoping for a takeover at a fat premium. But if no deal surfaces, you're sunk. Besides, the latest deals have been "mergers of equals," which allow two banks of similar size to hook up without one paying a big premium for the other. Shareholders still get a (more modest) pop, but in both stocks, not just the target's. So you can do well owning the buying bank--say, a NationsBank, First Union or Chase Manhattan. In many cases, that will be the better long-term investment anyway. But I'd also...