Word: brahminism
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...when many of his Boston Brahmin contemporaries are easing into retirement, 66-year-old Edward Crosby (Ned) Johnson 3rd, chairman of Fidelity Investments, the largest manager of mutual funds in the world, continues to move at warp speed. The year 1997 is the one in which he intends to rechannel the huge savings pools in Asia and Europe through the global stock market, duplicating overseas the mutual-fund juggernaut he has created in the U.S. His primary target: the $9 trillion of accumulated savings in Japan, where individual investors still squirrel away much of their earnings in savings accounts that...
SPRINGFIELD-As the battle between Sen. John F. Kerry and Gov. William F. Weld '66 roared to an end over the past four days, the two Brahmin candidates continued spewing the same rhetoric that has marked the race since April...
When Johnson talks about his approach to business, he summons images of Teddy Roosevelt, the patrician paragon of "the strenuous life." As he explains it, in the languorous vowels of a Boston Brahmin, "This comes from a belief that making things happen is what was given to me through my genes. That's in the genes...
...erstwhile party of the working- man with those perceived as high rollers. Kerrey bristles at this charge. "Who was our most hallowed Democratic politician of this century? Frank-lin Del-a-no Roos-e-velt," Kerrey scoffs, stringing out each syllable for emphasis. "He was a blue-blooded Brahmin born into wealth." Kerrey describes his candidates as "successful," not "rich," but admits that, sure, it doesn't hurt that these guys can write a check...
...Grant's phone anymore. Last week radio's Brahmin of bullies, 66, was disconnected from his audience on New York City's WABC. The apparent provocation: his speculation, on hearing of the crash of a plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, that Brown would be the one survivor--"because, at heart, I'm a pessimist...