Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winner of the Crimson Orangemen match will end the season as the second ranked team in the Eastern region--a distinction that will not lead to an NCAA bid, but would certainly be a welcome honor for the netwomen...
...first decided to run for Governor and Morris turned Clinton on to the power of polling. According to a Clinton biography by David Maraniss of the Washington Post, Clinton and Morris had a falling out after that election, reconciled briefly in 1980 (even though Clinton lost his re-election bid) and then formed an unshakable bond in 1982, when Morris helped Clinton reinvent himself politically and develop the "permanent campaign" strategy that Clinton still employs. Possibly apocryphal stories abound about the two men staying up all night writing campaign commercials and of Clinton decking Morris over a disagreement about Clinton...
...investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, even thinks the fall of the dollar will help the Dow reach 5000. He sees Wall Street as a Mexico for Japanese and German investors. Already, foreign buyers have begun to scoop up U.S. assets on the cheap, hence the Zurich Insurance Group's bid for Kemper last week...
...chase. Last week Iacocca stunned Wall Street and the auto industry by joining with the billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, 77, in a spectacular bid to take over the nation's third largest automaker. After three months of downward drift in the value of Chrysler stock, Kerkorian offered investors $55 a share, a 40% premium over the $39.25 price it posted one day before the bid went public...
...been directed at Washington and politicians this time, instead of at populism's traditional targets of Wall Street and businessmen. Stoked by radio-talk-show hosts, worshipped by fearful pols, the new populism created the movements for term limits and the balanced-budget amendment; turned Ross Perot's presidential bid from an eccentric billionaire's ego trip into a historic event; and ultimately led to last November's upheaval, in which Republicans won control of Congress for the first time in 40 years...