Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ego and arrogance were virtues, there would be a lot of saints on Wall Street. The most hallowed of the lot would include the highly successful Michael Price, who oversees $26 billion at Franklin Mutual Advisers, and the equally prosperous CEO-for-rent Al Dunlap, who is doing a tour at small-appliance maker Sunbeam Corp. In a brazen display of cronyism, the two last week publicly denounced ITT Corp.'s tactics in fending off a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. Picture that: Price, whom FORTUNE magazine calls "the scariest s.o.b. on Wall Street," linking with Dunlap, whose endearing nicknames...
ENGAGED. CATHY GUISEWITE, 46, chronicler of the travails of the Single Woman, whose alter ego "Cathy" has become a comic-strip fixture, and CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON, 46, screenwriter of Nixon; in Los Angeles...
...Speaker was bolstered by the failed coup, albeit temporarily. House Republicans of all stripes say they're tired of the warfare. But dissatisfaction with Newt remains high, and a survivalist strategy won't satisfy his ego for long. Which is why Gingrich himself may be searching for a way to quit. He has a cover. According to several advisers, America's most unpopular politician is thinking about stepping down as Speaker--to run for President...
...course, the soulmate the script gives her is an odd choice: apparently intended to serve as the agnostic Ellie's spiritual check and, perhaps, her alter ego; McConaughey manages to be a likable and reassuring figure. But even his best efforts can't hide the fact that his character is both sketchily drawn and almost laughably improbable (imagine him a fixture in Bill Clinton's White House...
...giant limp (a remnant of childhood polio), grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Toronto, and abandoned a law career to build the Cineplex Odeon movie-theater chain (from which he was ousted in a corporate coup). He is well known, and sometimes disliked, for his outsize ego and strong hand in the creative process. "If you're respected, it's a collaboration," he says. "If there's no respect...