Word: quickness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...great with the puck and he's quick," classmate Matt Mallgrave said. "He sees the ice very well and he's got a good shot. He's a pretty complete hockey player. He's your typical Harvard player, with lots of finesse...
...need to marshal our resources," he said. "There are no quick fixes...
...this kind of a country you're going to have a fairly long period of political preparation, and then a fairly quick political revolution," says Lawrence...
...Wall Street the debt-propelled takeover binge gave rise to the era's get- rich-quick mentality. Michael Milken, the deposed Drexel guru who pioneered junk bonds and nurtured them into a $200 billion market, was paid $550 million in 1987 for his unrivaled expertise. In a perverse version of the trickle-down theory, lower-echelon bankers raked in multimillion-dollar salaries, and new recruits with two years' experience earned six-figure sums. The fantastic payoff created a brain drain as the best and the brightest from top colleges and business schools across the U.S. flocked to Wall Street...
Junk bonds proved to be the ideal weapon for exploiting a weakness in corporate America that raiders were quick to detect. They saw that the stock market valued many large companies at prices well below what their assets would fetch if the companies were bought and broken up. By using junk bonds to build their war chests, takeover artists could pay a premium to shareholders and still hope to make a profit by dismantling a target company...