Word: tots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just ask Green Tree, where many shareholders remain bitter about the profit revision, which included a $190 million write-down for the fourth quarter of 1997. Angry investors have filed at least a dozen lawsuits, some charging that Green Tree used improperly "aggressive" accounting methods to tot up profits and thereby boost Coss's personal pay--a charge the company denies. Coss did enjoy a formula that accorded him a salary of $400,000 plus 2.5% of the company's pretax profits. Half the compensation was in cash, the other half in the form of Green Tree stock that Coss...
...Sign) to European dance music, and long term music contracts. Darnielle explained before ending the concert that the Ace of Base saga is one of the truly tragic stories of our time. Two minutes later, he had a crowd of bespectacled college students waving their arms back and forth tot he melody. After the concert, while fans circled the now embarassed looking Darnielle, someone commented that the show had been just like a Ray Bradbury short story: "Moving but wonderful." Slowly, the crowd dispersed towards home, back to their bedrooms...
...twentysomething alternative rock bands in the early '90s, some record companies are turning to even younger groups. "People are coming back to music that's fun and upbeat, and younger artists are filling that gap," says Patti Galluzzi, senior vice president of music and talent at MTV. Three tot-pop acts have new albums: Hanson has just come out with Middle of Nowhere (Mercury); pop-grunge band Radish (led by 15-year-old singer Ben Kweller and the object of a bidding war) has issued Restraining Bolt (Mercury); and 16-year-old blues-rock guitar prodigy Jonny Lang has sold...
...Broadway producers after she gets fired from their show. JOANNA PACITTI earned the title role in the revival of the '70s musical Annie by winning a splashy, highly publicized talent contest. But after more than 100 performances on the road, producers executed what a tabloid called a "coup d'tot" and replaced her with understudy Brittny Kissinger. "The actress and the part never came together the way we felt they needed to," said producer Timothy Childs. "My heart was cut in half," says Joanna, whose parents have threatened to sue for breach of promise if their daughter doesn't open...
...point is that during the civil war, people were fighting against their own countys. There's no paralled tot the four German soldiers from World War I who were fighting for Germany," said HBLSA member Reginald I Brown, a third year Harvard I am School student...