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Word: macdougald (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government's $1.5 billion guarantee of Chrysler loans was essential. Still, it was like the underdog pool player in a high-stakes game who announces an impossible bank shot involving awkward, oblique angles and chancy ricochets, and then does it. All over the country, people were impressed. Gil MacDougald of Atlanta thinks Iacocca is great, and has a plausible sociological explanation to boot. "In America," says MacDougald, a window washer, "people pull for underdogs and they just love a winner. Iacocca was both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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