Word: chutzpah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threat of an antitrust suit stopped the league from blocking the Rams' move to St. Louis last year, and even now--talk about chutzpah--Al Davis is suing the N.F.L. for trying to prevent his move back to Oakland. So while the N.F.L. is willing to send its lawyers up against those of Jerry Jones, it won't line up over the old antitrust ball with Modell. "Given the current court precedents and the possibility of treble damages in a case decided by a jury in an interested locale," says Tagliabue, "we would be foolish to go to court over...
Perennial faces in the news include out-spoken Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah, who recently made headlines for his comment on "Good Morning America" in which he said that police officers are trained to lie on the witness stand. (That remark sparked a recent protest by more than 60 area police officers outside The Dersh's office in early June.) Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...
...classic definition of chutzpah is someonewho kills their parents and pleads for mercy onthe grounds that she is an orphan," the professoradded. "She may have been rejected on the groundsof chutzpah...
...seize these opportunities, DreamWorks and its competitors will need both the vision thing and the chutzpah thing. "Because the costs of manufacture and marketing continue to rise," says Peter Rawley, executive vice president of the International Creative Management agency, "the audience has to be expanded very rapidly. So we have to squeeze the Chinese, get them to sign on. Add India, Southeast Asia, Latin America. And if you are going to spend the money to develop those markets, you'd better go with a full caravan. You can't be like Marco Polo and say, 'Oh, you like silk...
...Penny," as Hardaway is oh so inappropriately known, seems downright modest compared with Glenn Robinson, the top pick in this summer's N.B.A. draft. Robinson's agent is seeking a 13-year deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that would pay his client $100 million. Chutzpah? This is the same agent who arranged a party after the N.B.A. draft, where for a $10 fee, friends and admirers could come and celebrate Robinson's impending wealth. That's chutzpah...