Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marge's love while he stealthily impregnates an Italian woman. In a movie that ups the sexual octane of the book, Tom's interest in Dickie is explicitly homoerotic, the yearning poignant and desperate. The killing in the boat is less murder than the fatal flailing of a rejected suitor. Tom is crushed by Dickie's dismissal, so he crushes Dickie...
...commit securities fraud, and the two face civil charges from the SEC as well. It was a stunningly simple plan: One Monday morning, investor chat rooms were abuzz with a tip that NEI, a down-and-out commercial printing company, was about to be snapped up by a prosperous suitor. A feeding frenzy ensued, and in a few hours, NEI stock was driven up from 13 cents to more than $15. Meanwhile, back in Westwood, the two recent college grads sat at a UCLA computer cluster, gleefully calculating their take...
Still, it's not yet clear that every boss is ready to be such a solicitous suitor. "The labor market is tight, but we haven't got to the point where people are so valuable that they would entice companies to engage in a bidding war," argues Bob Liu of HotJobs.com Others contend that no firm would be willing to make a bet solely on the basis of a virtual resume. Networking giant Cisco, which does two-thirds of its hiring via the Net, says it isn't interested in bidding online for corporate mercenaries...
...Germans' laughter belied their misgivings. Many Daimler-Benz executives initially viewed Chrysler as a primped-up matron would regard an earnest young suitor. Chrysler marketing chief Jim Holden recalls his first meeting at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. headquarters in Montvale, N.J. As the Germans presented their view of the brand hierarchy--Mercedes on top and everything else far, far below--the tension in the room was palpable. Says Holden: "We felt like we were marrying up, and it was clear they thought they were marrying down...
...five-star boondoggles and outright fraud. You just weren't a self-respecting I.O.C. member if you weren't demanding first-class travel. You were something of a boob if you weren't cashing in those tickets, buying coach and keeping the change. Where once Killy gave out pens, suitor cities now offered furs, jewelry and fine wines. Robert Helmick, a former I.O.C. member and U.S.O.C. president who resigned in 1991 when it was alleged that he had violated U.S.O.C. conflict-of-interest guidelines by representing clients linked to the Olympics (he later was cleared of any wrongdoing), remembered keepsakes...