Word: bookish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Experts give him high marks for providing ample credit to the financial community and thereby helping overcome disasters ranging from the crash of '87 to the near collapse of the banking industry when it was saddled in the late 1980s with bad real estate loans. Notwithstanding his bookish appearance, Greenspan has long been a fixture on the Washington cocktail circuit, where he has squired such high- profile and politically connected companions as ABC newswoman Barbara Walters and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell...
...takes three to six months, says one quant who has made the transition, to change a shy, bookish type into a ruthless money-making machine. What's required, says this alumnus of the system, is "to lose your sense of decency. You have to be rude, brash, you have to be selfish. Also you have to start ignoring 90% of what you are told." He describes, perhaps admiringly, a vulnerable Ph.D. from Princeton University. This fellow wore $50 suits and thick glasses. He was painfully polite. Transformed, he became the quant from Hell. "He's got this personality suddenly...
...gates in Highland Park, Michigan, in a new Grand Cherokee sports van, introduced himself to a plant guard and rolled through to work. Since then, Eaton has adopted Chrysler's informal team structure as if it were his own, pushing it along with the enthusiasm of a jolly and bookish college preceptor...
...National Merit scholarship finalist, the winner of a Betty Crocker Homemaker award, the valedictorian of Marycrest, her Catholic high school in Colorado, Katherine Ann Power was the family's "pride and joy," says her older brother. She gave no hint that she was anything but a sweet and bookish child happy to be with the large Power brood...
...that bookish Cantabrigians have sacred away filmmakers. On the contrary, it has its own thriving community of independent filmmakers and small production companies who are attracted by the City's intellectual environment...