Word: buccaneerism
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The message was clear. Far from being grateful for the time and money the Tribune Co. had invested, the fed-up employees preferred almost anyone else. Not that Maxwell is just anyone. He is both a buccaneer billionaire and a professed socialist, renowned for a blend of macho charm and...
Alan Cranston, California Democrat. Received $900,000 in donations from indicted S&L buccaneer Charles Keating.
RICHARD III. Funny but never scary, Stacy Keach's inexplicably ballyhooed performance at Washington's Folger Theater suggests Captain Hook more than Shakespeare's monstrous monarch. The ensemble surrounding him is strictly amateur night, a melange of mincing courtiers portraying what are supposed to be buccaneer politicians. The sole saving...
The battle cry of all raiders is to "maximize shareholder value," but few of them blew the trumpets like Edelman. In 1987 he taught a business course at Columbia University that he aptly dubbed "The Art of War." Edelman offered $100,000 to any student who could find a mismanaged...
Whether Hispanic sounds will ever compete on the charts with pop is questionable. "I don't see Latin music ever being mainstream," says Frank Flores, general manager of the Latino station WJIT in New York City. "Our influence will seep into the mainstream, but it's still going to be...