Word: sputtering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Dow peaked at 985 in 1968, the conglomerate movement comprised dozens of America's largest companies, including Textron, Litton, Teledyne, Raytheon, Walter Kidde & Co. and US Industries. The movement would sputter to a halt in the '70s, its oxygen cut off by rising interest rates and a falling market. A surprisingly anticonglomerate Nixon Administration crimped the most aggressive expansions in the interest of protecting what Ling calls "the smokestack-industry crowd" of old-line executives. Ling was forced out of LTV in 1970 as part of an antitrust settlement. Bluhdorn died on a company jet in 1983. Geneen...
...still important material we haven't got" and "700,000 pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...
...volcanic peak, has begun to smoke and churn, threatening 500,000 people who live beneath it. In Italy five active volcanoes are being watched, the most menacing of which is the temperamental Vesuvius. In Japan 86 active volcanoes are packed onto an archipelago smaller than California. Other volcanoes sputter and steam in places as diverse as Ecuador and Alaska, Iceland and Indonesia. All told, there are more than 1,500 active volcanoes around the globe--550 or so on land and the rest underwater--that could put the lives of 500 million people at risk...
...mother may have come to terms with this competitive intensity, but much of the computer world has not. There are Websites dedicated to reviling him, law firms focused on foiling him and former friends who sputter at the mention of his name. Companies such as Netscape, Oracle and Sun Microsystems publicly make thwarting his "plan for world domination" into a holy crusade...
...time the contingent of officials and statesmen arrive to bestow honors on the bank for excellent management and strong returns, the cast is sprawled around the room, too exhausted to carry out their threats to kill one another, and irritated entirely to madness. The final speeches sputter out of steam, dragging on longer than necessary...