Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robinson strongly denies that the company ever set out to be all things to all people, to become a true financial supermarket. Amex has always seen itself as more of a niche player, an upscale specialist. But Robinson concedes that his financial empire might have overreached in its scope. "This has been a time of tremendous turmoil and change," he says. "We've had problems along the way, but we've gone and fixed them." Robinson may not have fully repaired Amex just yet, but the company seems to have finally come to grips with the likelihood that the current...
...once sprung from the pampered captivity of, say, sitcom stardom, are as unready for real life as zoo pets suddenly released in the wild. They try, too quickly, to catch up on the rambunctious youth they missed, and wind up in the police blotter or on the cover of supermarket tabloids. They can spend their 20s torpid, discarded, in rehab from their early fame...
Andy is the master story-teller. Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous, he urges everyone he meets to spill their guts. No one escapes without regurgitating a short story about themselves. The subjects range from supermarket apocalypses to tales of Texlahoma, an asteroid orbiting earth where it is perpetually...
...situations in this "situation" comedy are supremely fitting for a family with such class. In one recent two-part episode, A1 refuses to buy a functioning air conditioner in the heat of the summer, so the family takes up residence in the frozen-foods aisle of the local supermarket. The Bundys--who seem middle-class but frequently cry poverty--often contemplate dinners of dog food...
...charge in 1986 and began to buy up 10 smaller companies. Revenues rose from $77 million in 1985 to $197 million last year. Dilenschneider's goal was to supplant the British firm Shandwick (1990 revenues: $211 million) as the world's largest p.r. firm by creating a one-stop supermarket for clients seeking everything from lobbying and management consulting to research, direct-mail campaigns and traditional public relations...