Word: buccaneerism
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By all odds, this transition once again will be a shirttail operation, underfunded, ill defined, rushed and harried by spoilsmen and political operatives. Campaigns have become an industry of moneygrubbers and pitchmen, only a few of whom should be allowed into power. The nation and Ronald Reagan might have been...
Goldsmith can be ruthless in his pursuit of profits. "There is a lot of internal rage in Jimmy," says John Train, a New York financier who knows him well, and Goldsmith himself acknowledges, "When I fight, I fight with a knife." Yet he is rather different from the standard buccaneer...
"Bill Casey was the last great buccaneer from OSS," said Clair George, the CIA's chief of covert operations. "He saw in Ollie North a part of that, and he liked Ollie." Transcripts of George's remarks, made in closed sessions with Congress's Iran-contra committees in early August...
On the disputed play, a Buccaneer appeared to run out of bounds, but he continued to run to score the try. In the aftermath, the fill-in referee overruled the line judge and awarded the Buccaneers the try.
Among more recent takeovers, the SEC is said to be looking at the action of traders amid the turbulence surrounding Broadcaster Ted Turner's acquisition of MGM/UA, for which the Atlanta buccaneer paid $1.6 billion last March. In October 1985 the New York-based Maxxam Group, an investment and real...