Word: suckered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burst my bubble. TIME ran two regional versions of its magazine. The one featuring the Green Bay Packers on the cover was distributed only in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The rest of the U.S. got a cover featuring a bereaved and saddened Bill Cosby. Boy, do I feel like a sucker--a Cheesehead bumpkin from the small-time Dairyland. Apparently our team didn't qualify for a nationwide cover, just something the local yokels would go for. JILL WATRING Kenosha, Wisconsin...
...market when stock prices are soaring, as they are now. The lesson is this: anything goes. So-so companies are fetching top dollar from the public, while insiders and early investors head for the exits and Acapulco. Some 125 companies are waiting their turn at this sucker's market, readying some $3 billion in stock for initial sale. A record-shattering 799 companies have sold $47 billion in stock through IPOs this year...
...Mike Tyson to become the only heavyweight besides Ali to win a title three separate times. By beating the supposedly invincible Tyson with an 11th-round TKO, Holyfield dealt a resounding blow to Don King's gangstas of boxing, not to mention the bookmakers who were happy to take sucker bets on the 7-1 underdog. "I got caught in something strange," said Tyson...
Undeterred by the minor literary scandal that ensued and obviously a sucker for a rattling good (if wildly improbable) yarn, writer-director Barry Levinson proceeded with his screen adaptation of the story. In doing what a filmmaker must do--strip a book to its narrative essence--he has perhaps resolved whatever controversy may still cling to Carcaterra's work. We now see clearly that the author's primary source wasn't life but movies...
...sponsors are also gatekeepers to Fidelity's expansion plans. Johnson is, in the words of an associate, "a sucker for a good idea," and Fidelity's hottest one is to leverage its massive technology infrastructure. Since Fidelity is already handling record keeping for pension plans, the reasoning goes, why not take on other corporate bureaucracies, notably benefits plans, payroll and human resources? In today's penny-pinching corporate environment, these areas are "non-value adding." In other words, they cost money, so why not bid the work...