Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Others say he did little more than gut the company and dress it up for sale. But for the most part his critics aren't shareholders, the constituency he most wants to serve. Now he's on for an encore at Sunbeam, where earnings are in a two-year slide. Sunbeam's stock was tracing the earnings decline until Dunlap signed on. That day alone, Sunbeam shares jumped 50%. "It'll be a vintage Dunlap turnaround," he told me. "Just like at Scott...
They each slide into their vehicles and, driving through an automatic door, the officers ride out onto bustling Garden Street...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Unless we reverse course, America is going to slide inevitably into second-class economic status. Without change, a child born today will have to pay sky-high taxes while facing a deteriorating standard of living...
...years ago, if you got around much in the clubs and artists' spaces of downtown Manhattan, you might have found yourself at one of Nan Goldin's slide shows. Tattooed loveboys, innocents abroad, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown--in her slides they drank and smoked and coupled, or just deployed themselves gravely across the staging grounds of East Village life. Goldin had been taking pictures of herself and her friends since the early 1970s, first around Boston, where she was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then in the lofts and hangouts...
Only sometimes. In 1986 many of the best pictures from her ever changing slide show were collected in a much talked about book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. And what Goldin has learned since then about the inexplicable pleasures of life is evident in a wonderful recent shot of her mother laughing. But when her own life's work faces you in bulk, at least in the 275-picture bulk hauled up by the Whitney, the slack starts to show. Goldin is a diarist, with a diarist's instincts for the ways into her own saga but also the same...