Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...valued uses and stimulate effective corporate management." Perhaps the most important result is that Pickens and his fellow raiders have served notice on the leaders of American firms. If they do not manage their companies skillfully, they could find themselves in the middle of a takeover fight with the gambler from Amarillo, or someone like...
Pickens' father, Thomas Boone Pickens Sr., now 86 and living in Amarillo, was an inveterate gambler who made and lost a fortune buying and selling oil ^ leases. He also wagered frequently on college football games. During the depths of the Great Depression, he drove around Holdenville in a dazzling Pierce-Arrow. Recalls Tommy Treadwell, a retired local banker: "Little T- Bone, as his father called him, was so embarrassed about that car that he insisted on being dropped two blocks from school whenever his father drove him there." Pickens' mother, by contrast, was a practical woman who never made snap...
...this stage, a Las Vegas gambler with a high technology crystal ball and the latest software might be forgiven for giving about 2 to I odds in favor of the stalemate scenario. But then, a Wall Street analyst convinced that the market was due to rise all but one year the superbow I has correctly foretold the course of the market for the year...
...father William was a frequent gambler and political factotum from the capital's North End, the textures and tones of which fill all of Kennedy's work...
...came with some degenerates who went straight to the tables. They haven't even been up to our rooms." ("Degenerate" is an acknowledged category of gambler in Las Vegas, one step ahead of "compulsive" on the road to ruin.) In perfect synchronization, the two women lean over with brushes in both hands, and each beats her hair into a froth. Upright again, both declare, "Ugh! Straw!" The little bimbo says, "I'd never put color on my hair. People would think I was phony...