Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Bok stressed that Harvard needed a new president to mastermind an upcoming $2.5 billion fund drive, his resignation dashed hopes for its speedy start. University officials said the Bok resignation would likely delay the beginning of the drive for up to a year...
Despite the similarities to its predecessor, Burden of Proof creates a separate identity for itself. Its borrowed character, Stern, figured only in the minor role of legal mastermind in Presumed Innocent. In his recent book, Turow creates the fuller character of a man tortured by his wife's death...
...whom are devil- dolled up in grotesque prostheses and outlandish mannerisms but are given ample room to strut their stuff. Their leader is Pacino, who as Big Boy gives Batman's Jack Nicholson a lesson or two in how to play a comic-book villain: as part psychotic mastermind, part Hollywood dance director -- a Bugsy Siegel who wants to be Busby Berkeley...
...alleged mastermind of this scheme was a man who knows a good business opportunity when he sees one: Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. immigration officials suspect that the 47 aliens were ultimately headed for New York City's Chinatown and were customers of a lucrative passport-for-sale racket run for several years by Noriega and his cronies. If the deposed strongman was truly a "people-smuggling" kingpin as a sideline to his alleged drug-trafficking business, he was simply cashing in on the upper niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents...
Proponents argue that Earth Day 1990 will both challenge individuals and mobilize new constituencies such as minorities, the religious community and organized labor. The event's disciplined chairman and mastermind, San Francisco lawyer Denis Hayes, hopes to saturate the public consciousness and create what he calls a "tilt point" in attitudes, refocusing the passions of the cold war on ecological issues. Hayes hopes that Earth Day will help make sound environmental behavior as accepted in daily life as wearing a seat belt. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts believes Earth Day will help recruit an army of voters to hold...