Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brash entrepreneur tries to break NASA's monopoly...
...Lorean still exudes the brash self-assurance he displayed in 1973, when he walked out of a $650,000-a-year executive post at staid General Motors to create his own auto company. To finance his factory, he approached rival governments like a baseball free agent dickering with club owners. The U.S. Government offered him $65 million in loan guarantees if his plant were built in Puerto Rico, but De Lorean took $114 million in loans and grants from Britain to make his cars near economically depressed Belfast in Northern Ireland...
...spent more than $ 1 million on promotion, and the initial pressrun of 416,000 copies was a sellout. With the London Sunday Times and its glossy magazine shut down by a labor dispute, upscale advertisers flocked to the new publication. Start-up costs were high ($5.4 million), but the brash publisher was undeterred. Said Sir James: "If it has the feeling of life in it, I will keep it going, even with losses...
...Grossenvahn-which means megalomania in English-is also full of harmless hangers-on, who argue for hours about the genius of some current exhibit, or the outrage of a brash new painter. But to learn anything about art at the Grossenvahn, you should be quiet and listen to the people of actual achievement who frequent the cafe. They will be your best teachers in Munich because there are no summer courses or supervised museum programs offered anywhere...
...Yonkers market player who lost it all in the last big crash, Granville ran an investment advice service for those who dealt in postage stamps during the 1950s. He moved up to play with the big boys in the '60s, working for E.F. Hutton until his brash unorthodoxy began to clash with the fundamentalist corporate ethic of the firm...