Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shift toward a more staid Post was set in motion by Donald Graham, who in 1979 succeeded his mother Katharine as publisher. While Mrs. Graham took pride in Bradlee's hard-edged approach and backed him when he drew criticism, the young Graham is more attuned to Downie's wariness. He has turned the Post's focus more toward local news, opening four suburban bureaus in the past five years. Says Graham: "We want to be the paper for everybody in this area -- people with key federal jobs and, we hope, the people who clean their offices...
Something like that spirit has reawakened in the reign of Elizabeth's namesake, the present monarch. In this similarly acquisitive age, new Elizabethans like Lord Hanson and Sir James Goldsmith appear as contemporary Sir Francis Drakes, wreaking their havoc among clumsy corporate galleons. But the staid giants of British business -- the ships of the line, so to speak -- are hardly less daring in their sorties abroad. Nor have the kingdom's investment managers lagged behind...
Under Cabot's guidance, the endowment has grown markedly different from the staid, conservative portfolio that the University held when HMC was created to managed the University's holdings...