Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hulking computers being sold in Europe. He was convinced that he could build a small machine for only $8,000. So Nixdorf hopped on his motorbike and set out across the countryside to find a customer. Executives of a Ruhr Valley utility company were interested in what the brash fellow offered. After he finally built the machine, orders began coming in so fast that Nixdorf quit school and opened his own shop. Now he sells to 24 countries. Nixdorf-Computer sales last year were $99 million...
...American Mark Spitz, Munich represents a second chance at superstardom. At 18 he entered the Mexico Games with two world records under his belt and brash predictions that he would win six gold medals. When he finished up with two gold, one silver and one bronze-a tidy tally for almost any other competitor-he felt "downright depressed." In truth, he had not swum his best. But Spitz seems to have regained confidence without cockiness. Though he now holds three world records in freestyle and butterfly, Spitz may not compete in the full range of individual and relay events...
...successor, Vito Genovese, partly by shooting straight. He reportedly carried out a contract in 1962 to gun down Anthony Strollo, another rising Genovese aide, who had insisted on dealing in narcotics against the family rules. Eboli fell out of mob favor for a time when he was so brash as to distribute a "wanted" poster for an FBI agent who was investigating his vending machine and jukebox business-and the FBI responded by assigning dozens of agents to dog the Genovese family...
...previous record: $12,000) but also the reign and reputation of Soviet chess itself. Since 1946, when the play-offs for the championship were first organized, the U.S.S.R. has so dominated the title that it seemed to be permanently engraved in Cyrillic script. No Westerner, much less a brash young American, has ever advanced to the finals. Never, that is, until now, and the resulting excitement among the estimated 60 million chess players round the world?and millions of others who do not know a double fianchetto from a double play?is of the kind usually reserved for an epic...
Both the staid Star and the brash Daily News have lost money in head-to-head competition for the afternoon advertising dollar. Star President John H. Kauffmann expects to pick up both circulation and ad linage in the takeover and make the newly named Evening Star and Washington Daily News profitable. He also hopes to make it into more formidable competition for its sole remaining rival, the morning Washington Post (circ...