Word: builder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minkow made himself over too. A scrawny, hyperactive youth, he became a body builder to attract girls. "I was no James Bond in high school," he told an interviewer. "I wanted the attention." He drove a bright red Ferrari, lived a bachelor's life in a million-dollar home and lolled around in a backyard swimming pool with a big black Z on the bottom...
Look out, Texas Air and American! Fasten your seat belts, TWA and Delta! The old United Airlines is aiming to make a comeback -- under new leadership. And forget about that weird name Allegis, which Builder Donald Trump said was "better suited to the next world-class disease." The new chairman plans to scuttle that moniker, along with the company's dubious strategy of being a sprawling travel conglomerate that rents cars and runs hotels. From now on, United will concentrate on the airline business, this time with its pilots eyeing roles in the boardroom as well as in the cockpit...
...corporatizer and consensus builder, Bok certainly does not fit the image of corporate culture. When he first set up shop as President with his three children and wife Sissela, the daughter of the late Nobel-prize winners Gunnar Myrdal and Alva Myrdal, Massachusetts Hall was more like Camelot than a boardroom...
Dukakis himself acknowledges the changes wrought by three years of considering politics from an academic perspective: "My years at the Kennedy School taught me several things. I'm a better listener, I think longer about decisions, and I'm a better builder of coalitions, which has made me a much more effective governor and would make me a much more effective president...
...picturesque, cheek-by-jowl harmony. The subways, "awful and astonishing in about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered at El Morocco or the Stork Club, and the punters headed for Toots Shor's, mindful of the proprietor's dictum that "a bum who ain't drunk by midnight ain't trying." It was, in short...