Word: learners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mouth managers but seldom seem to spend an honest day's work trying to renovate the companies they attack. Yet lo and behold, this widely feared raider is proving a breed apart from the other fast-buck operators. He rolls up his sleeves. Icahn, 51, is a quick learner who is imposing his no-frills ethic on some of the largest and most troubled U.S. corporations. Right now, the unflappable Icahn (estimated net worth: $700 million) is simultaneously juggling three daunting turnaround projects: the born-again TWA, the bankrupt Texaco and the resurgent USX. Icahn's demonstrated management know...
...down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave tryst. In commerce and pleasure, Omar is a fast learner. How could he not be, with Uncle to teach him? "I'm a professional businessman, not a professional Pakistani," Uncle shrugs as he evicts a poet from his squat. "And there's no such thing as race in the new enterprise culture...
Ford is obviously a good learner...
...most Politburo members have had. During a two-week tour of Canada in May 1983, Gorbachev impressed officials with his straightforward, modest approach and his grasp of agricultural statistics. "Unlike other Soviet figures, he didn't need a brief," says a high-level Canadian official. "He was a quick learner." At one point, then Canadian Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan bluntly told Gorbachev that he hoped the Soviets would continue their system, because "as long as you do, you will remain inefficient and will be the best market Canada could have." The translators, recalls a Whelan aide, were shocked, but Gorbachev...
...deferred to Mondale's opposition to tuition tax credits for parents of private-school students. She is from Mondale briefing books to prepare for the detailed policy questions that await her, and could rattle her. Congresswoman Ferraro," says Sasso, sounding somewhere between hopeful and confident, "is a quick learner." - By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and Richard Hornik with Ferraro...