Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Montagnier said he knew why the viruses matched: he had sent Gallo samples of the virus in 1983. Though Montagnier did not accuse Gallo of intentional wrongdoing, the revelation raised suspicions that the brash American had snatched both the virus and the discovery from the French. Gallo, however, insisted that the American version of the virus was homegrown...
...bailing out Trump with a rescue package that gave him $65 million in new loans and eased credit terms on his bank debt, Trump's bankers last week stopped the game. Already more than $3.8 billion in the hole and sliding perilously close to a mammoth personal bankruptcy, the brash New York developer had no choice but to accept the dismantling of his vast holdings. Meeting round the clock at secret Manhattan locations, Trump's lawyers and bankers by week's end had begun to hammer out a complex series of agreements on the distribution of some of his assets...
...made his share of rash promises -- to provide all Muscovites with an apartment by the year 2000, say, or to achieve a measurable improvement in living standards in two years. But unlike most, Yeltsin has taken his political lumps and recovered from them. He has perceptibly matured from the brash, almost bullying Moscow party boss of 1987, who boasted that he fired 40% of the party hacks who ran the city. Says Mikhail Poltaranin, a Yeltsin adviser who edited the pro-Yeltsin Moskovskaya Pravda in 1987: "When he was being attacked, he had to defend himself, and it was very...
...delicate straits as well is real estate developer William Zeckendorf Jr. He was 36 in 1965 when his father, the brash and bold William Zeckendorf Sr., lost his fortune, which in the early 1960s might have been worth as much as $500 million. The son has been relatively cautious, but he is nevertheless feeling the pinch. His Zeckendorf Towers in Manhattan lost its largest commercial tenant, Integrated Resources, when the investment syndicator filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Still, because most of his debts are corporate and not personal, Zeckendorf stands to lose a relatively modest $7 million...
...want to see real baseball, you've got to go to New York. Money, fashion, politics, culture. A little spitting on the sidewalks, an obscenity or two and the brash, bullying "religion of baseball" comes to life...