Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frictions are most acute in Oklahoma, Colorado and Illinois, where hotshot pros have shoved aside older volunteers who have labored for months to get their man on the ballot. In some instances the acrimony has led to legal battles. In Tulsa organizer Pat Clancy says a Dallas-based team took over his group's bank account when they consolidated operations in Oklahoma City. When Clancy balked at being shut out, the World War II veteran was told he was a "security risk." According to Cliff Arnebeck, a Perot volunteer in Ohio, the Dallas-based advisers "squelch and humiliate" grass-roots...
Disagreeing with Wilson on just about everything having to do with heredity versus environment is Stephen Jay Gould Agassiz professor of zoology. Gould, another Harvard science hotshot, often teaches a Core science course...
Tonight, the Braves, who trailed Los Angeles by nine games at the All-Star break, are back at home. Hotshot Steve Avery will pitch for Atlanta against Houston rookie Jeff Juden, who is still seeking his first major league victory...
...Harvard students, we're always glad when Harvard steals established hotshot professors in underappreciated fields from other schools. It certainly helps Harvard. But does it help the field? Does it help the overall mission of higher education? Does it help the nation? Not much. Harvard needs junior faculty in Afro-Am. It has none. Harvard must make a serious effort to increase the pool of scholars in the field and others like it. It hasn...
...Springfield, Mass., and New Orleans (both 28%). Even in posh Beverly Hills, the rate is so high (25%) that city officials journeyed to the Orient in January to try to woo prospective tenants. Bucking the trend are a few lucky cities, most of them sleepy state capitals that hotshot dealmakers bypassed in the '80s. Among them: Lansing, Mich. (10%), Albany (9.6%), Raleigh, N.C. (9.4%) and Sacramento...