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...risk of an appeal to old-style manners and the sacrifice of his parents' era is that some will ask if Howard's policies - viz. the Iraqi war, border protection and the housing boom he started - have contributed to this aggro, go-go, tolerance-lite culture. Perhaps Howard, in his constancy and experience - compared with wild man Latham - will seem tired and remote to voters under 40. Already the imagery is revealing. Howard on his solitary morning walks; a leader who appears at home with George W. Bush and the Queen, but out of place (an "abandoned lunch...
...giggles, and snuffs out a gang of villains who threaten to destroy Tokyo. It's exactly the kind of bubblegum part that might give a serious young actress second thoughts. But in Japan, where manga and anim? characters are treated with almost spiritual reverence, stepping into Cutie Honey's go-go boots means becoming the custodian of a national treasure?and Sato, 22, is delighted with the assignment. "You really think I look like a cartoon character?" she bubbles, pinching her cheeks as if to prove to herself that she is real. "Thanks...
...shocked when I was placed on the panel, since I'd once worked as an investment banker. I didn't think the prosecution would want a juror who had been active on Wall Street during a go-go era and might well see nothing wrong with fat bonuses and lavish parties for men generating great wealth for the company. I certainly did not enter the case with a vendetta against the defendants, who were accused of taking tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized bonuses and essentially using Tyco assets as a giant piggy bank to fund their...
Regardless, “We’ve Been Had” exemplified the Walkmen’s attitude toward being young and disappointed in New York City: “Well I’m a modern guy/ I don’t care much for the go-go/ Or the retro image I see so often telling me to keep trying...See me age 19 with some dumb haircut from 1960/ Moving to New York City/ There with my friends, we’re all taking the same steps...
...board of directors wholesale, fired the entire top corporate team and hired 80 executives to fill their spots. He also set out to restructure the company's $24 billion debt--$11 billion of which was due in 2003, a burden that threatened the company's viability. He undid the go-go ethos of the Kozlowski era, in which Tyco, from 1994 to 2001, spent $63 billion to acquire 1,000 companies. (Kozlowski was known as "Deal-a-Day Dennis.") Breen also moved the corporate headquarters from an expensive Manhattan office with views of Central Park to a nondescript...