Word: leos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alerted by the emigre Hungarian scientist Leo Szilard to the possibility that the Germans might build an atom bomb, he wrote F.D.R. of the danger, even though he knew little about recent developments in nuclear physics. When Szilard told Einstein about chain reactions, he was astonished: "I never thought about that at all," he said. Later, when he learned of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he uttered a pained sigh...
...This message isn't lost on the Braves, who released a statement distancing themselves from the pitcher and said they'll later review what action to take. A similar statement was made by league commissioner Bud Selig. Rocker's own pitching coach, Leo Mazzone, went as far as to say, "Something's going to go wrong now with his career. And you watch it, it'll end up going straight down the tubes...
...loft and vacationed with Courtney Cox's family. He had a knack for wrapping himself in buzz. In a New York Times profile of Ovitz last May, Giacchetto dropped names the way most brokers drop bad stocks. "Get me Michael!" he reportedly shouted to an invisible assistant. "Get me Leo!" (Giacchetto denies it happened...
...high-flying Giacchetto has crash-landed. His glitziest investors--Matt, Cameron, Leo--have abandoned him. A high-profile venture-capital investment fund he helped set up with a subsidiary of the Chase Manhattan Bank to attract celebrity dollars has disintegrated. And the once worshipful buzz has suddenly turned ugly. In Hollywood, a town built on tales of golden boys brought down, the wags are debating the reasons for his steep descent...
...McCain is more interested in showing off the pets--the iguana, the hamster and Leo the snake--as well as the house itself with its vast deck, pool and hot tub off the master bedroom, as if to say that life has been good to him after all. The four kids have already been packed off to school. And now Cindy, in this Phoenix home where she grew up, is in charge. She's more commanding here than in Washington, where even after 19 years in the role of a politician's wife, she still seems tentative. She says...