Word: staid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band of horns, drums and a guitar beat out religious tunes. Two lines of teen-age girls in green swayed, sang and clapped their hands joyously. Swept up by the infectious rhythms, everyone, including the press, began to dance, even the veteran diplomatic correspondent of Italy's staid Corriere della Sera. When John Paul reached the green lines, he suddenly began to dance too, his big frame swaying back and forth to the rhythmic beat, his face beaming...
Those driving personal habits, however, created problems in the staid banking community. Abboud became infamous for his humiliating chastisements of senior officials in front of their subordinates, and FORTUNE this spring named him one of the ten toughest bosses in the U.S. Some 200 bank executives left First Chicago during Abboud's tenure. One described him as "perverse, willful, abusive, inconsiderate and erratic." After one disgruntled banker resigned, Abboud said to him: "If you are leaving town, I'd like to buy your house...
Characters here are, as an airport sign reads, "Passengers in Transit," moving through emotions alone, along intersecting orbits in mechanical mystery. When staid government official Christian Thrale meets orphan Grace Bell at the symphony, two strangers' historical curves come together and fall into relation...
...high breeding and low wattage while supporting orphans, saving widows from penury and generating far more money than the stock market did for corporations and governments. Now this primary source of long-term lending has been pulverized by the twin forces of inflation and soaring interest rates, and staid bond dealers talk like teen-agers trading bubble-gum cards or posters of Pop heroes. They speak of swapping "Bo Dereks" and "James Bonds," slang for big bond issues that mature...
Around the horseshoe-shaped table in the board room on the twelfth floor of the Ford Motor Co. headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., last week, 18 normally staid directors gave out three loud hurrahs. The first was for Henry Ford II, who retired after nearly 35 years as the company's boss and was succeeded as chairman by Philip Caldwell, 60. The second was for Donald Petersen, 53, who replaced Caldwell as president. The third was for the automaker's acquittal that same day in Winamac, Ind., on unprecedented criminal charges of reckless homicide in the deaths of three...