Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was, in truth, plenty to be scared about. 3M (1995 sales: $13.4 billion) has long been the Ma Bell of Minnesota companies--a revered and maternalistic giant that gave the world Scotch tape and Post-It notes, where jobs for life are still a norm. The spin-off, called Imation, a $2.3 billion business that became an independent, publicly traded company last month, offered no such security. Only 3 of 4 people who worked for the new company's divisions when they were part of 3M made the move to the Imation payroll. Gone were two management layers, five...
...that it puts things in a different perspective, in which sprites become giants and heroes become people once again. But the malign calculation of the bomb gave all such shifts a deadly tilt, as if to invert the Shakespearean affirmation: one touch of malice makes the whole world spin...
...Lewis, the Clinton-Gore campaign official who has perfect pitch on presidential spin, puts it this way: "Parents think it is a good idea that government helps them do this important work. To be on the side of parents, especially in households where everybody is squeezed for time and money, this is the right place...
There have been exceptions to the downdraft, including corporate spin-offs such as Lucent Technology, AT&T's renamed manufacturing division, launched in April for a record $2.7 billion, or $27 per share. Investors pushed the price to $30.63 the first day of trading and have remained bullish on it ever since. It closed last Friday...
That's the good part. What is exasperating about Isaacs' novel is that every even-numbered chapter breaks off from this engaging legal drama to spin out a whiny and exceedingly slow-moving melodrama of Lily White's fretful childhood and early adult years. Her younger sister, we learn at great length, was pretty and petulant and absorbed all their parents' attention; her father was a Jewish businessman who tried unsuccessfully to be a Wasp; the husband Lily eventually married was handsome but shallow...