Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listening. There is a bumper crop of new talent around, making personal, adventurous, uncompromised music for a wider audience that is not bound by country's strict conventions. It could be that things haven't been so fertile since the '50s, with the coming of Johnny Cash and the brash flush of rockabilly. For sure, the pickings haven't been so rich since Waylon and Willie and Merle and Kris broke through more than a decade...
...been a dazzling bit of footwork, even for a world-class dancing man like William Bennett. Since he took office in February 1985, the brash Secretary of Education has turned himself into the most visible and surely the ) most audible member of the Reagan team. During the primaries, he flirted with various presidential aspirers who eyed him as a running mate: "I dance with all the girls," he chuckled. So was he hungry for higher office? "I'm not running for anything," he said. Amid a riptide of Administration defectees, Bennett held fast...
Perhaps the best-known political casualty of the Gorbachev era, former Moscow Party Boss Boris Yeltsin, issued a typically brash plea for political rehabilitation. Fired last November for his attacks on fellow Politburo members who showed a lack of enthusiasm for Gorbachev's reforms, Yeltsin portrayed himself as the victim of circumstance. "I believe that my only + mistake was that I chose the wrong time, ((just)) before the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Revolution," said Yeltsin, now a high-ranking construction minister. "I took very much to heart what happened." Showing that he is as combative as ever...
...have no entry point into politics," Ueberroth said. "I've passed up opportunities. I'm a little too brash, a little too blunt. But I run things well. I'll find something...
...conflict is aggravated by drastic differences in culture and philosophy, almost as if the two capitals were situated in warring nations. On one side are Chicago's futures and options traders: young, brash, speculative, unabashedly noisy. On the other are New York's stock traders and brokers: tradition-bound, analytic, fraternal, relatively restrained...