Word: jockey
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Appropriately, it all took place in New York, a state where Blacks and Jews jockey intensely for space, resources and political power...
...native of South Dakota, Colvin, 37, majored in economics at Harvard. While still in school and just afterward, he worked as a disk jockey for classical- music radio stations. (He still puts his radio voice to good use, as a commentator on business for CBS Radio.) Colvin spent three years as a ghostwriter for CBS Inc. chairman William S. Paley's autobiography, As It Happened, before joining FORTUNE as a reporter. An editor there since 1984, he has worked on virtually every kind of story the magazine covers, though his primary responsibility is the Managing section...
...done -- with the author's mischievous grin taking the curse off a detectable undertone of "Ain't I cute!" Getting non sequiturs to tail up like circus elephants doesn't always work, even if the paragraphs are amusing. In a sketch called Blumenthal on the Air, an American disk jockey for some reason is based in Paris and unaccountably burdened with a surly Iranian wife. He broods murkily without enlightenment, and so does the reader...
...nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve," Kerrigan says. "I want to be a video jockey on MTV." She says her immediate plans are to attend law school at the University of Virginia, where she has already gained acceptance...
...weak link in this show is Joseph Choi, as Sonny LaTierri. He delivers his lines stiffly, slowing down the scenes in which he appears. Andrew Howard, as Vince Fontaine, the sleazy disc jockey, and Marc Jones, as the school nerd Eugene, are entertaining, though less significant...