Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Could Hart have survived the original story and the almost inevitable discovery of the details of the Bimini trip? Probably not. Hart's cool, cerebral style left him without the reservoir of intense supporters that has allowed other politicians to ride out more serious scandals. His towering strength in the polls was in part a reflection of his high name recognition and the weakness of his opposition. With no sizable assets of his own and still saddled with $1.3 million in debts from his 1984 race, Hart found raising money to be a chore even at the best of times...
...thigh-high, the kind where if you drop a quarter on the ground, you have to leave it there," says Lynn Schnurnberger, author of the upcoming Let There Be Clothes: 40,000 Years of Fashion Unveiled. "This batch didn't come from a revolutionary, free-sex period. They are cool, pretty, definitely not overly suggestive...
...started as a mistake, by all signs an honest one, but it grew into a Wall Street disaster. A 36-year-old senior bond trader at Merrill Lynch apparently lost his cool last month when rising interest rates started rapidly eroding the value of his $900 million portfolio. Instead of liquidating the securities and taking the loss, as most of his colleagues on Wall Street were doing, the Merrill Lynch trader seemingly gambled on a go-for-broke strategy. Without his employer's permission, he plunged in deeper, buying up $800 million more of the securities in the hope that...
...slump is over," crows Tandy Chairman John Roach. Indeed, Roach and his computer-industry rivals have reason to feel a sudden rush of confidence. After being relatively cool to personal computers for three years, customers are snapping them up faster than a high-speed printer spews out sprocketed paper...
...voiced deep concern about protecting possible indictments, the two key figures in the entire affair will not be heard until at least mid-June. Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who was kept informed by North about almost everything he did, poses the most direct peril to the President. Cool and at least outwardly serene at the center of the scandal, the pipe-puffing admiral has told friends he intends to lay his story out candidly and will not be shaken by others. He has privately said he feels that he kept the President informed of the Iran and contra...