Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would take a man with a big ego to try to manipulate the nation's investors--and every indication is that Granville meets that criterion. He told the Boston Globe in an interview last fall that he would use his "sell signal" sometime this winter, and use it he did. And the thought that he had sent the stock market plunging did not bother Granville; indeed, he seemed to relish the notion that he and his friendly indicators had "read" the market. "It looks like we've done it again. When we call a top right...
...same sobering advice might be given to Cabinet officers. They too have been lured into ego-embellishing travel by their fleet of Air Force JetStars. If Reagan really does intend to give his Cabinet a decisive role in his deliberations and also insists that they set their departments in order, he should keep his Secretaries in town. They can go to dinners or to breakfasts and pray, although there are hazards in these activties...
...Crimson victory comes after easy ego boosting wins over Brandeis and MIT and raises the squad's season record...
...that order. Hartman's ego is reported to be enormous. No one is allowed to stand in his light. Sandy Hill, Lunden's energetic predecessor, was much admired by the Good Morning staff but got along with Hartman so poorly that she hardly talked to him on camera, finally leaving to become the show's roving correspondent. Lunden, by contrast, is no threat to anybody. "The reason that she's risen is that she's a pretty girl with an empty head who doesn't bother anybody," is the bitter comment...
However big his ego, moreover, Hartman does not let guests or viewers see it. "I'm no star, but David went out of his way to be friendly to me," says Dr. Robert Dupont, ex-director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "On the other hand, I did four hours of filming with Dick Cavett, and at the end of it he didn't even remember my name...