Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thompson somehow lived up to his brash self-advertisements, in part because he was able to reflect the dark and roiling energies of young America. As early as 1964, he saw Ronald Reagan as "the prototype of the new mythological American...who will probably someday be President." One year earlier he noticed that Richard Nixon was indestructible, "a vengeful Zero with nine lives." Thompson, in fact, was that loneliest of creatures, an idealist without illusions, ready to kowtow to no one and as contemptuous of beatniks and hippies as of the "rotarians" they rebelled against. Surveying the 1960s like...
DIED. TROY RUTTMAN, 67, brash hot rodder who sped to short-lived glory in 1952, becoming at 22 the youngest winner of the Indianapolis 500; of lung cancer; in Lake Havasu City, Ariz...
Dior is the jewel in Arnault's crown, and he has entrusted the brash Galliano with polishing it. He says, "I love bringing young talents to the heart of an old house. Galliano has special links to Dior that you can feel: in design, style, romanticism and femininity. Of course, it is sometimes shocking--but fashion means something...
...consumers. Now some utilities are saddled with high-cost plants, particularly nuclear facilities, just as lower-cost competitors are moving in. So high-cost outfits like Boston Edison and the New England Electric System in Massachusetts are selling off their generating plants to deliver power produced by other companies. Brash newcomers such as Enron Corp. of Houston, one of the country's largest distributors of natural gas, are buying megawatts of electricity on the open market and selling them around the country. It's called wheeling...
...brash approach to dealmaking defies Japan's hidebound business tradition. "When we started Softbank," says Son, "we didn't have money, we didn't have experience, people, talent or infrastructure. That was the first stage, and now we are on to the second and third stages." He likes to tell the tale of his joint venture with Murdoch: it was last April, and Murdoch's office called to ask if the Softbank chairman would speak at a News Corp. reception in Tokyo. Son's assistant, protective of his schedule and not recognizing the Murdoch name, dutifully turned down the request...