Word: brashness
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When General Motors asked Bob Lutz to revive its product line in 2001, the thinking was that if anyone could do it, he was the man. The charismatic, brash ex-Marine fighter pilot had led the development at Chrysler of such hot cars as the Dodge Viper and PT Cruiser, and he wasn't shy about criticizing GM for cranking out the dullest metal in Detroit...
DIED. Phil Walden, 66, brash impresario and co-founder of Capricorn Records, based in Macon, Ga., a label known during its 1970s heyday as the citadel of Southern rock; of cancer; in Atlanta. Intent on providing a haven for an array of blues, country and pop artists, the former manager for Otis Redding launched the Allman Brothers Band and popularized such acts as the Dixie Dregs, the Marshall Tucker Band and the Charlie Daniels Band...
...third movement’s revelry featured particularly notable solos by bassoonist David L. Richmond ’06 and clarinetist Alex M. Brash ’06, and heightened the pizzazz of the “Merry Gathering of Countryfolk...
...the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with résumés bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that...
...It’s a basic humanist idea. THC: Which of the Afghani students inspired you the most? LM: I had the strongest connection to Palwasha, the young girl with the crush on the boy she wasn’t allowed to talk to. She was 19 and so brash and flirty and fun. She clearly wanted to have a more interesting life than she was able to have in a two-room apartment with her mother and sister. She had an insatiable curiosity about our lives. She didn’t want to pick up and move...