Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson's brazen attempt at highway robbery attracted the attention of Henry Kravis, the pixieish juggernaut from KKR, the New York City firm that had written the book on leveraged buyouts. Kravis, who months earlier had met with Johnson and discussed the possibility of taking RJR Nabisco private, was furious at Johnson for his double-dealing. With his cousin, and KKR partner, George Roberts, Kravis submitted a blow-them-out-of-the-water bid of $90 a share...
...first, party bigwigs tried to brazen it out. But as the evidence of graft among the major parties multiplied, so did public outrage. Shortly before resigning, Craxi was accosted by an angry mob outside his party headquarters. Damning testimony from several key figures, and the likelihood that members of Parliament will be stripped of their immunity from criminal prosecution, sent party higher-ups into a frenzy. Says sociologist Franco Ferrarotti of the University of Rome: "These people always operated on the concept that public funds belong to the person who grabs them first. Whatever they steal is theirs. There...
...undercover white supremacist terrorists. The cast is terrific across the board. Mark Linn-Baker is especially funny as the actor who has embraced method acting so completely that he thinks he's an ancient Chinese emperor; Mia Korf plays a dynamic Linda Anne Wing, the politically fervent actress brazen enough to disrupt The Real Manchu in protest...
...music and costumes were an eclectic mix of the distinguished past and the brazen present. "We had Fred Astaire romances, Latin rhythms and up-to-beat bands such as En Vogue," said Notzon...
Instead, officials at the highest levels of our democracy (including President George Bush) have withheld relevant information from him, the courts have dismissed his most significant convictions because of technicalities, and many Republicans have consistently criticized him for daring to waste $35 million in taxpayer money on his brazen pursuit of justice...