Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crystal staircase set amid pink marble walls and bathrooms equipped with gold-plated fixtures and rolls of Italian toilet paper on which were printed copies of classic artworks. Escobar's prize possession, a 1,000-acre ranch known as El Napoles, even had a private zoo stocked with giraffes, dwarf elephants, rhinoceroses and some 2,000 other exotic animals, many imported illegally from Africa. President Barco decreed that the drug lords can get their property back only if they claim it in person and prove it was acquired with profits from legitimate business, not drugs...
Bostonians indifferent to the boring New England Patriots and their dwarf-like back-up quarterback probably wonder why I've been loyal to a pro football team. I admit it. The NFL is pointless, slow and cruel. But the Redskins, somehow, are different...
...contest has already pushed the price for RJR Nabisco above $20 billion, which means that the potential buyout would dwarf the largest previous takeover, the $13.3 billion acquisition of Gulf by Chevron in 1984. The megastakes battle has taken the starch out of corporate chiefs everywhere. After all, if RJR Nabisco, the 19th largest U.S. corporation (1987 revenues: $16 billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially...
...wrong choice on their part could launch a thousand ships? What a thought. Either these leaders are right about their importance in society--which would be frightening enough--or, more disturbingly, they could be trying to guide our national institutions toward some ideal where values like Veritas and objectivity dwarf the petty concerns of partisan politics...
...father, thanks to his expertise, could more easily learn to cope. Moreover, as part of his continuing training, he was in analysis. "I broke down and cried before my analyst," he recalls. Two additional factors helped: "I had been treating a dwarf, and I am short myself." He is 5 ft. 2 in. tall...