Word: fandango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fretting was more urgent than it might have been because the recent management of Disney had been largely a Wells-Eisner fandango. Beginning in 1984, the pair had led Disney through a recovery that increased annual revenue more than $7 billion in 10 years. Wells was the detail-oriented negotiator who framed the deals for Disney's acquisitions and tended to the nuts and bolts of the business. Eisner was the company's intellectual incubator, dreaming up new projects, overseeing theme-park expansion and, in his own words, acting as the company's main "cheerleader." So close were...
...fading Pat Buchanan. That honor belongs instead to billionaire Texas businessman H. Ross Perot, who positions himself as a modern-day Cincinnatus called from the boardroom by the little people clamoring for him to mount an independent campaign for the White House. In what may be the cleverest antipolitics fandango in an antipolitics year, Perot insists, "I have no desire to be President. My personal feelings are, anybody intelligent enough to be able to do the job would not want the toughest, dirtiest, most thankless job in the world...