Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less-than-spectacular football team drew 41,000 fans to a single game this year, the hockey team routinely brings in 3000, but the Harvard men's squash team--a squad that has never had a losing season--draws at most a couple dozen loyal fans to its games...
...Prior to the Nov. 14 announcement of his penalties, Boesky had been allowed by the federal regulators to unload quietly some $440 million in stocks from the estimated $2 billion worth of portfolios he controlled. In effect, Boesky avoided the market slump caused by the news of his own spectacular downfall. Steamed one senior Wall Street trading executive: "This was the ultimate insider deal." Raged another investor: "It's incredible! This guy was allowed to protect himself while the rest of us had to take a hit for being honest...
Perry's weight fluctuates from mildly incredible to phenomenally spectacular and has risen far enough above 300 lbs. to dim the defensive tackle's offensive sidelight, which had been so symbolic of Bear dominance. Ditka, who for the moment acknowledges the New York Jets as the N.F.L.'s foremost team, has pledged Perry will carry the ball again "as soon as his weight gets a little nearer to a vicinity we'd like." Asked what vicinity it occupies now, Ditka replies, "Chicago." This season's odd shadow is being cast by Doug Flutie, the 5-ft. 9-in. quarterback from...
...monarchs migrate remains a mystery. Of the three to five generations that hatch every year, only the last goes south. Gorging on nectar, monarchs fly up to 100 miles a day. One explanation for the spectacular mass movement is that when the glaciers of the last Ice Age retreated from North America, the butterflies expanded their range northward to exploit new food supplies, and then began migrating to survive the winter. How the butterflies find their winter hideouts is a conundrum as well. An intriguing theory suggests that, like certain species of birds, the monarchs may respond to the earth...
Something momentous already had. At a single stroke the SEC had written finis to one of Wall Street's most spectacular and controversial careers, built up in little more than a decade. The federal agency had also taken a mammoth stride forward in the insider-trading investigation that first exploded last May, when the SEC filed a civil complaint against Dennis Levine, a former managing director of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment banking firm, and charged him with illegal trading in 54 stocks. Levine subsequently pleaded guilty to four criminal charges and gave up $10.6 million in illegal profits...