Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former think-tank director, diplomat and history professor who is often called Gorbachev's alter ego...
...Trump's gaming operations. "Steve knew how to force Donald to listen," says Jack O'Donnell, who headed the Plaza Hotel and Casino until he resigned in April. "Once Steve was gone, Donald had to get more involved in the business. He started operating the budget based on his ego, not on reality." As the opening of the Taj came under repeated delays, | Trump grew increasingly abusive toward employees...
...gorgeous"). Perhaps they should visit Rekall Inc., a mind-travel company that offers "the memory of a lifetime": a microchip implant of images from a wonderful vacation. They could even buy someone else's memory. "Take a vacation from yourself," the salesman croons. "We call it the Ego Trip...
...BIRD. IT'S A PLANE. IT'S MIGHTY MAXWELL. From all the huffing and puffing it took to knock down the door, you'd think the British publishing magnate was on a rescue mission. But Robert Maxwell was only trying to save his ego from the prospect of settling in less than spacious surroundings when he arrived early one recent morning at the London headquarters of his new weekly newspaper, the European. Staffers say he was dismayed not to find a king-size office for himself, and used a crowbar to break into the better proportioned lair of the managing...
...power, an ego trip. Ed Gray was ignorant, a person whose background was public relations, all of a sudden being put in charge of a $1 trillion industry. Where do you think they got these regulators? Off the streets, out of ads. They took this conglomeration of inexperienced and untrained people and they say, O.K., go out and cope with the Charlie Keatings who are diversifying the S&Ls. You've got a bunch of know-nothings trying to tell business people how to invest money...