Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes down to the final match--the one that will decide a win or a loss, a title or a second-place finish, an assuring ego boost or a distressing fall. Most of the fans have gone home, the sun is setting, and the rest of the team is huddled courtside, watching intently...
...House search for a Supreme Court nominee says there was no background work under way when Cuomo took himself out of the running; in contrast, background checks were already well under way for other candidates. What this suggests is that Clinton may have simply been stroking the Governor's ego with his talk of Cuomo's fitness for the high court...
...helped Sony buy Columbia Pictures in 1989. You helped Matsushita buy MCA/Universal in 1990. People accused you of dabbling in investment banking to satisfy your ego...
...easy it is to depict baseball as a simpleminded rogues' gallery of ego- driven owners and selfish superstars. In fact, Bonds' salary is not out of whack, especially compared with that of a journeyman shortstop like Spike Owen (lifetime batting average .243), who signed a three-year, $7 million contract with the Yankees...
Ability to pay for talent is a surprisingly difficult issue to analyze because the balance sheets of individual teams are as closely guarded as the intricacies of the CIA budget. Moreover, the ego rewards of owning a winning ball team dwarf the psychic payoffs from traditional business. Henry Aaron -- not the slugger but the Brookings Institution economist -- recently chaired a joint labor-management study commission that examined the finances of baseball. But even Aaron is uncertain whether teams are actually losing the money they claim. "I would like to know who owns the law firm that does the work...