Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perelman's pursuit of Gillette is particularly brash for legal reasons. Last November the tycoon signed a ten-year agreement in which he promised not to seek control of Gillette without prior consent of the company's board. Perelman says he has sought such approval in a letter to Gillette's directors. But the target company immediately criticized the letter as "strident...
...million in the debacle. But the hardest hit was Minkow. Not only had his $100 million stock holdings shrunk to less than $6 million, but his oft announced dream of making ZZZZ Best the "General Motors of carpet cleaning" was irrevocably shattered. Once lionized as an emblem of what brash youth can do, he had become, almost overnight, a symbol of where overreaching ambition can lead...
Friends who knew Biden decades ago in Delaware recall all three attributes in the brash Irish boy whose charm could command a crowd even then. The Biden family had moved from Scranton when their firstborn, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., was ten. They settled in a neat, three-bedroom house in a middle-class suburban development called Mayfield. Joe Sr., who never attended college, sold Chevrolets. Joe Jr. shared a room with his two brothers. Valerie, who would grow up to manage her brother's campaigns, was the lucky occupant of the third bedroom...
...founding editor of New York in 1968, Clay Felker pioneered the brash, trend-spotting magazine devoted to capturing the beat of a city. Felker, who went on to Esquire and U.S. News & World Report, is returning to native ground, this time as editor of Manhattan,inc. (circ: 85,000), a glossy, literate, monthly specializing in examinations of power and the powerful in New York City...
...Gentile, man and woman. You name them, Howard Stern has insulted them. Stern's radio talk show, broadcast in New York City and Philadelphia weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., is perhaps the most scabrous of a genre that has come to be known as raunch radio. The brash, shaggy-haired Stern maintains that he could not care less whom he offends, but last week he offended the one group that could turn off his microphone: the Federal Communications Commission...