Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curtis Haydon, Princeton's freshman hotshot, or should I say, hot dog, came into town undefeated in the 500-yd. and 1000-yd. freestyles. He must have felt like a wet noodle when he left, golf hat and all, with two seconds, as Rich Baughman touched him out in the 1000-yd. free, and captain-elect Fred Mitchell bunted him a second time in the 500. Unfortunately Princeton, on the strength of their equally obnoxious divers, won the meet...
When they first ran against each other in 1967, Jim Ryun of the University of Kansas was the world's premier miler and Marty Liquori was a 17-year-old hotshot out of Essex Catholic High in Newark, N.J. At the A.A.U. championships that year, Liquori streaked home in 3 min. 59.8 sec. to shatter the four-minute barrier for the first time in his career. The crowd cheered-but not for Marty. He finished seventh, a full 70 yds. behind Ryun, who set a new-and still unbroken-world record of 3 min. 51.1 sec. for the mile...
...question of conflict of interest on the part of the companies that do both outplacement and conventional executive recruiting. "No one knows," he says, "when one company's $45,000-a-year dehiree will be touted by the firm to another company as their 'new $50,000 hotshot.' "Officials of the companies involved reply that they keep the two parts of their business rigidly separate. Dehirees are counseled not to hide the fact that they have been fired; the placement people and the firing companies work out a suitable explanation for a new employer who inquires...