Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming go-to-meeting country music by a new Nashville hotshot. Black sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning, and he's got a knack for cozy melodies...
...HOTSHOT AND A CHILLY VIRTUOSO...
Even among the legions of successful young investors operating on Wall Street in the headiest days of the bull market, David Bloom, 23, stood out as a precocious hotshot. Armed with little more than a good line and glib self- assurance, the son of a Manhattan pizza-restaurant owner persuaded scores of clients to give him some $10 million so that he could play the stock market on their behalf. For some time, Bloom's clients were satisfied: quarterly reports for their accounts showed savvy trades and fat profits...
...past two years. They often cite professional image and job marketability as the reasons for smoothing creases or trimming jowls. Explains Dr. Melvyn Dinner, director of the Center for Plastic Surgery in Cleveland: "The 40-year-old who has lost his job is competing with a young hotshot. It's the competitive demand to look youthful...
...that grown-ups' dreams are made of. Coleco came charging out of the Cabbage Patch with its pathetic but lovable doll, and currently ranks third, with annual sales of more than $500 million. Hasbro, the leader, with $1.3 billion in sales projected for this year, is considered the industry hotshot. Every year some 4,000 new products soar and roar out of the factories in hopes of finding a place under the nation's Christmas trees...