Word: heir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Black thinks of himself not just as an heir to country, but as a child of pop; he grew up listening to such mainstream stars as James Taylor and Jackson Browne. Nonetheless, many songs on Black's first three albums seemed stiff and traditional; the intensity of his emotions was displayed only rarely. On No Time to Kill, collaborators help bring out the best in him. In A Bad Goodbye, he sings a duet with Wynonna Judd, who draws out an emotional edge in his ! voice. On Happiness Alone, Black and co-writer Jimmy Buffet turn the usual country formula...
Last week both Robert and Gloria struck back. Robert, who was his father's carefully groomed heir apparent before the blowup, filed suit to recover more than $2 million in cash and stock that he claimed was owed him under employment contracts. And in divorce court, Gloria sued for legal separation from her husband of 45 years. Charging that Herbert had beaten her, conducted extramarital affairs and engaged in financial chicanery, Gloria demanded control of either Dart or the family's real estate company. Responding through a lawyer, Haft denied any wrongdoing and accused Gloria and Robert of forming...
...1990s. Also among the papers, GM said, were plans for a superefficient new factory where the car would be built. As German investigators sifted through the documents, GM officials said federal prosecutors in Detroit were also probing charges that Lopez had absconded with corporate secrets. Lopez, once heir-apparent to GM's North American car business, had helped develop the Opel project for GM but jumped ship after the company decided to put his dream plant in Hungary rather than in his hometown of Amorebieta, Spain. Volkswagen had wooed Lopez with promises to build his | plant in Amorebieta...
...dyed lectard and a gold lame top. She's a dancer who just wants her daughter, Janie Blumberg, played by Emily Gardner, to be happy. Janie's happiness is the challenge that the plot of the play follows. She falls in love with a Jewish doctor who is heir to his family's restaurant fortune, but she must eventually choose between staying with him or following her freelance writing career where it leads...
Ivan Berend, a former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes Soros as a "man on a mission," an heir to the powerful East European tradition of intellectuals guiding a political transformation. "He has become consumed with making a difference," says Berend, former head of the Soros Foundation in Hungary...