Word: brashness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question now is who will be next, a question which reportedly is dividing the Administration itself. Some advisers are said to be counselling that Reagan maintain his support for the Judge until the Senate votes, and then appoint another brash conservative, one with less clips than the prolific Bork. They want to force a confrontation with the Senate. In an off-the-cuff remark Tuesday, Reagan vowed to do just that...
...corporate rebuilding job that young Ford faced was formidable. The company was losing nearly $10 million a month, and labor relations were chaotic. The new boss did what any good manager in trouble does: he sought help. Ford accepted an offer made by a brash team of former Air Force officers and signed them up in a package deal. He gave them salaries that were princely at the time, ranging from $9,000 to $16,000. Among the ten Whiz Kids, as they were called: McNamara and Arjay Miller, both of whom later became Ford presidents. Henry raided...
Foreign shopping fever reaches even into the country's remote fastnesses. When the brash British raider Sir James Goldsmith calculated that U.S. timberland was becoming a tempting prize, he launched a $500 million takeover bid at San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach paper company in order to grab the corporation's vast forests. As a result of the 1985 takeover, Goldsmith now owns 1.9 million acres of American forests in Washington State and Oregon...
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...