Word: brashly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...says economist Elie Cohen. "When the stock declined and Messier proved incapable of reversing it, that's when market perceptions, Messier's reputation and Vivendi itself crumbled." The assembly of Vivendi Universal through one billion-dollar deal after another enhanced Messier's reputation as the bright, brash future of European business. In championing the marriage of entertainment and technology - and by ostentatiously embracing American business practices and cultural tastes - Messier marketed himself as a new brand of global CEO. His appetite for media attention, meanwhile, offered a refreshing change from France's older generation of clubby, secretive business chieftains...
...brash savant Summers was going to force a re-examination of the status quo, rediscover a bully pulpit dusty from disuse and take the risks that would protect the University from complacency at a moment of unparalleled prosperity and success...
...Navy Seal, Pro Wrestler, Mayor and now Minnesota's Governor, Jesse Ventura has always been brash. Currently he's under fire for everything from budget woes to his outside activities, like TV work. As he enters the last months of his first term, the independent discussed his future with TIME's Matthew Cooper...
...coups go, Venezuela?s could only be called absurd. The plotters were brash and incompetent, while the U.S. stumbled on the sidelines, appearing at times to welcome the overthrow of an elected government. The whole thing lasted only three days, and in the end, the target of the putsch re-emerged as its conqueror: the once and once again leader, President Hugo Ch?vez...
...trapped in a cave, beat a murder rap, shin up the corporate ladder, bamboozle an insurance company or steal a nice guy's girl. For Wilder, mankind was divided not into the haves and have-nots but into the haves and let's-gets. He celebrated the ugly American: brash men on the make, women on the take. What knaves these mortals be! How smart they are, though not as smart as they think...