Word: staid
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...rubber balls across a net. For some years now, this phenomenon has been comfortably referred to as the tennis boom. But the phrase simply no longer serves to describe the massive outpourings of cash and angst, the pop convolutions of status and commerce now going on in the once staid world of tennis. Even the word orgy, though it has some of the right resonances, sounds too temporary and frivolous...
...professions, the staid, gray flannel world of accounting last week erupted in a name-calling civil war. The contestants: Chicago-based Arthur Andersen & Co. v. the Securities and Exchange Commission, an industry self-policing board, and five other companies that, like Andersen, are members of accounting's "Big Eight" firms. The issue: How far should the Government go in monitoring the standards used in auditing a company's books...
...either the hottest story-or the weirdest coincidence-in the history of publishing. In the staid pages of Woman 's Day last month, the wife of an Illinois minister preached passionately about how the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution would help housewives. In the Ladies' Home Journal, the wives of seven 1976 presidential contenders voted 5 to 2 for the ERA and told why. (Only Cornelia Wallace and Nancy Reagan were against it.) The ardently feminist Ms. ran a story by Actor Alan Alda explaining how the amendment could benefit men. In fact, one kind...
...earlier this year on charges of obscenity and engaging in organized crime. The bride, who is the associate publisher of Hustler, will wear an ivory dress and veil, and her bridesmaids will be in red. The couple will live in a $375,000 Tudor mansion in Bexley, Ohio, a staid suburb of Columbus, where the good citizens have not exactly rolled out the welcome wagon...
Once upon a quite recent time, the staid insurance industry had a Cinderella firm called Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO). By charging low premium rates, GEICO skipped past older firms to become the fifth largest auto insurer in the land. Investors from far and wide flocked to buy a piece of GEICO, bidding its stock up to more than $60 a share. Then Cinderella turned into a pumpkin...