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...this year alone include besting rival financier Wilbur Ross in a bidding war for textile firm WestPoint Stevens, forcing stock buybacks at energy firm Kerr-McGee and drug firm Mylan Laboratories, and (with a stunning 77% of the vote) landing three seats on the board of Blockbuster, the video chain...
...chief engineer for solar-systems exploration. "The depth in the process of building the next generation to go where no one has gone before was a little bit broken." The money spigots opened up again in the '90s, but by then there were gaps in the lab's history chain...
...care about my opinion on this or that piece of music or film? How much do I not belong in the arts elite at Harvard, you might ask? Even if you might not, here’s how much: I played high school sports, I don’t chain smoke, nearly half of my sweaters sort of fit me, and I am not a vampire...
...don’t mean to stereotype, or, better said, I do mean to, but I don’t mean it when I do. Mostly, I need to start wearing a black turtleneck and chain-smoking Pars that I keep in a wine glass...
...negotiator Richard] Holbrooke to listen." But Hill's real talent may be the trust he can inspire in those who matter. In the Korean talks, he has been given a long leash by U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice. Hill forged an unlikely bond with his rough-edged, chain-smoking Chinese counterpart Wu. Though he doesn't normally smoke, Hill bummed cigarettes from Wu during breaks, and impressed him by producing perfect smoke rings, a skill he'd picked up as a young Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Hill, too, came to admire Wu for his intelligence...