Word: slavish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starts out innocently enough. After his date stands him up, Walter is desperately seeking someone sensational to attend a business dinner with him. His boss warns him in advance that the evening is for a Japanese client who keeps several concubines in addition to a slavish wife, and who has extremely conservative attitudes toward women. Even though his sleazy car dealer brother-in-law has set him up on more than one date with disaster, Walter is assured that Nadia (Kim Basinger), a Southern tart who's new to town, will be different...
Moreover, this bizarre devotion is taken for normal. Students should be slavish followers of sports teams. A Harvard undergraduate who doesn't give a damn whether the hockey team wins or loses is thought odd, standoffish. Sadly, the men who run Harvard feel the same...
...wide managerial experience. These new leaders look more like savvy executives than rumpled and boorish political hacks. Some have traveled to the West, and all are familiar with the latest American or European trends in their fields. Their success has usually been built on innovation rather than a slavish adherence to established methods...
...coming to terms with himself, Baldwin was better able to come to terms with the problems of race. It gives him an objectivity, which he calls "sardonic distance," that is absent in most men who write on similar subjects. Through this self-analysis, Baldwin rids himself the slavish mentality of ressentiment which hinders the judgement of Black separatists and turns them into unknowing racists. Baldwin is one of the the few writers of any color who is free of racism. When he writes that, "Unless one supposes that the idea of black supremacy has virtues denied to the idea...
Wall Street can be as slavish in following a financial trend as clothing designers are in copying fashion changes. This year's financial fad is the leveraged buyout. In these deals, the group of investors buying a company puts up the firm's assets as collateral. Since the loans needed for a leveraged buyout are thus backed by the company itself, there can be big profits for the investors, who often put up very little of their own cash. In one of the most celebrated leveraged buyouts, former Treasury Secretary William Simon and a group of financiers bought...