Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nuclear missiles. I invited him to call on me at the Pentagon. When he arrived two mornings later for breakfast, he was alone. Here was the leader of the Soviet military marching into the enemy's camp, without security people or a gaggle of aides. It was an impressive display of self- confidence. At that meeting he told me the two things in his life that he was most proud of were his participation in the "Great Patriotic War" and being present at the signing of this treaty...
...author of two earlier highly praised novels, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and Prisoner's Dilemma (1988). His work on The Gold Bug Variations, which began in 1986, was aided by a 1989 MacArthur Foundation "genius fellowship." Seldom photographed or interviewed, he put himself on display during a brief prepublication visit to his native U.S. -- he was born and raised in the Midwest -- before returning to the Netherlands, where he has lived for the past five or so years. He says his brush with publicity was less painful than he had feared: "Self-promotion...
...took out his titanium-shafted Cobra driver, and the whistles turned to disbelieving laughter as he started launching balls over the road beyond the driving range. On neighboring tees, pros like Jose Maria Olazabal and Ian Baker-Finch broke off their own practice regimens to watch the ballistic display. A few minutes later Daly headed for the course. His first drive was a monster 364-yd. shot, followed by a 280-yd. 3-iron blast. In short order, Daly turned the 644-yd., par-5 first hole, the longest on the P.G.A. tour, into an ordinary...
...sport. A fighter's business, which may also be his pleasure, is hurting people; because it is the public's pleasure too, he is paid for his work. It would be nice if this walking keg of testosterone believed that what he does is just a job, a dispassionate display of skill, and that his ferocious aggression is merely an attitude to be shucked along with his mouthpiece after the final bell. Nice, but not likely...
...called for tighter regulation of the $2.2 trillion government securities market. Declared Congressman Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who chairs a subcommittee that oversees Treasury bond trading: "The issue is the integrity of the most important financial marketplace in the world." Markey blamed lax regulation for permitting Salomon to display "a cavalier disregard for the rules." Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut demanded that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady conduct a "full review" of the department's auction rules. With a $300 billion federal budget deficit to finance, Washington cannot afford to scare any bond buyers away...