Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the summer and into the fall, law-enforcement authorities in more than 115 countries had been looking for Frankel. The 6-ft., 135-lb., mousy-haired, bespectacled, bumbling, barred-for-life stockbroker had been transformed by the tabloid press into a sort of postmodern James Bond villain--one part Goldfinger, one part Woody Allen. He had eluded authorities for four months while traveling with a retinue of women, as rumors spread of his living large while lying low. Law-enforcement officials at first suspected that he was in Israel, then Brazil, and finally admitted they had no idea where...
Much of the war against Saddam has faded to the level of indistinct chatter, where it is hard to sort signal from noise. The problem is bad on the military front, but it is even worse among the Iraqi insurgents, who have to be coached, caressed and cajoled by the State Department. Last weekend 300 delegates from various Iraqi opposition groups gathered in New York City, where U.S. officials hoped they would finally lay aside their feuds and present a unified front. That didn't happen. The major group representing Iraq's southern Shi'ites, the Iran-backed Supreme Council...
...Federal Reserve, the main bank regulator, quickly granted Weill and his new partner, co-CEO John Reed from Citi, a grace period to sort things out. Long before they would have to do any actual sorting, though, Congress is now fixing things for good. President Clinton is expected to soon sign a bill repealing the decades-old restrictions that have divided brokerage and banking into infusible industries. The bill sweeps aside the Glass-Steagall Act and blesses the brave new banking world embodied in Weill's $689 billion behemoth, Citigroup. Lest there be doubt as to how fully Weill routed...
...need to bother coming up with these flimsy premises; as bodyguard Vallery Irons, Lee wears 5-in. stilettos and a spandex minidress just to go to the office. "Val's wardrobe is her interpretation of being able to be everything she wants to be," explains Lee. "It's a sort of 'It could happen to you' kind of thing, that someone from a small town could end up in a glamour city wearing pink spandex and just be able to be a Barbie come to life...
...often host to public gatherings that require a big kitchen. But the bean counters weren't swayed. Nor were they moved by the Air Force's official grounds for the remodeling--that "the area is always hot, the lighting is poor, the refrigerator is not functional for a family." Sort of makes the $2.4 billion B-2 bomber seem like a steal...