Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from far across the cavernous hall, past the rows of tables laden with laptops and telephones, beyond the center of the room where the dervishes spun, as we huddled together and comforted one another with tales of campaigns gone by. We saw her too: lustrous of hair, cornflower blue of eye and fair of face. But her youthful countenance wore a troubled look as she approached our group...
What's the Kiewit connection? The employee-owned Kiewit began investing in its Omaha neighbor, MFS, in 1986, correctly anticipating the deregulation of the telecommunications industry. Kiewit then spun off its 40 million shares of MFS to employees last year. The biggest winner was Kiewit CEO Walter Scott Jr., whose 16 million shares of MFS were worth around $750 million as a result of the WorldCom merger...
...economic plan that would cut an average family's taxes by $1,400. Having spent the past two years spilling blood over what spending would have to be cut to help balance the budget and having spent his political life arguing that work has to come before play, Dole spun around and embraced Jack Kemp and his supply-side optimism for reasons more tactical than spiritual. He may still not believe it will work, but he can believe it will help him win. Trent Lott, the Mississippian who replaced Dole as Senate majority leader, was shocked, although happily, saying...
...employees who received it last year, the blandly worded letter spelled doom. They were about to be spun off to a new company being formed around 3M's money-losing data storage and medical imaging divisions. The outcasts would have to teach those old dogs some profitable new tricks. The outfit's products, ranging from floppy disks to X-ray film and magnetic resonance devices, were well regarded but caught in viciously competitive markets. When Gallup polled the spun-off workers about their fate, typical responses included "shocked," "betrayed" and "apprehensive...
Longtime chief of staff Sheila Burke, who shared Dole's skepticism, recalls informing her boss on New Year's Day that another government shutdown was imminent. Dole turned to her, furious, "Did it ever occur to anybody that there are people out there who live paycheck to paycheck?" Dole spun away, saying to no one in particular, "This is the last time." And it was. On Jan. 2 he walked onto the Senate floor in the morning and just ended it. He didn't tell anyone. Didn't call anyone in the leadership. Didn't use any of the mechanisms...