Word: brashness
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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...
Want to follow the ups and downs of cable television? Just watch Ted Turner, Atlanta's brash cable mogul and America's most entertaining businessman. In the go-go years of the 1970s and early '80s, Turner was the cable industry's chief cheerleader, creating the nation's first satellite-beamed superstation, WTBS, and confounding skeptics by successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month...
Venerable tradition, sticky with the memory of cotton candy, has it that the circus never changes. That may be why a brash Canadian named Guy Laliberte says he hates the circus and why a colleague, Denis Lacombe, thinks clowns are boring. What makes their opinions worthwhile is that Laliberte is the founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), which hoists its 1,756-seat tent in New York City this week as part of a North American tour that has made it something of a cult attraction. And Lacombe is his star clown, who does...
...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...