Word: insiderism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Webb is a political amateur, and party pros consider him "undisciplined." That means he hates fund raising and isn't very comfortable with the backroom coddling of special interests that is a dismally essential part of the job. He entered the race late and precipitately. His answers are sketchy on...
And after listing the failures of past state governments, Patrick delivered one of his best-received lines of the night, asking rhetorically, “Are we seriously going to consider an insider candidate who has presided over so much of the calamity in our lives?” The...
DETAINED. Chao Chien-ming, 34, son-in-law of embattled Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian; on suspicion of insider trading; in Taipei. Prosecutors say that Chao, who denies the allegations, used privileged information to make more than $10 million by investing in troubled Taiwan Development Corp. shortly before its shares...
The jury found that Lay criminally touted the stock even after whistle-blower Sherron Watkins gave him her famous memo in August 2001 warning that Enron's accounting was deeply flawed; Skilling had quit only days before. Both men were found guilty on every charge of fraud and conspiracy in...
So we trade rumors. The most piquant, floated by one French insider, had the Palme d'Or going to the Portuguese film Colossal Youth. If so, this would be the upset of the movie millennium. Variety's Justin Chang described the film as "a numbing, nearly three-hour fusion of...