Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mastermind...
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the enormously successful head of Disney's studio division, abruptly resigned after losing a bid for the company's No. 2 post. Hailed as the mastermind behind such blockbusters as Aladdin and The Lion King, the mercurial Katzenberg sought the post after the April death of Disney president Frank Wells. Katzenberg's exit augurs more uncertainty for Disney, which this year has already weathered Wells' death and chairman Michael Eisner's quadruple-bypass heart surgery...
...France, Germany, Japan and especially the Middle East is diminished by bungled missions, unimpressively soft targets and years of dissipation from high living and alcohol consumption. While Carlos hid out in the Middle East over the past 10 years, intelligence forces often cleared their blotters by blaming the elusive mastermind for their unsolved cases. Now that he is safely lodged in cell 258187 of Paris' La Sante prison, a less-than-breathless truth is rapidly emerging...
...electoral season this fall, the Democratic Party rejiggered its team of top players, gently easing out national chairman David Wilhelm. Though Wilhelm will remain on the job until after the November elections, former California Representative Tony Coelho, a once powerful insider in the House, is being brought in to mastermind party strategy...
...emir's fortune until investigators closed the fraudulent operation in 1991, weren't present to help pay up. One of them, 71-year-old founder Aga Hasan Abedi, is now ensconced in his native Pakistan, on good terms with local officials and unlikely to face extradition. "He's the mastermind, and he's sitting up there in Karachi," says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who has investigated the scandal. "It appears that the Abu Dhabians believe that $9 billion was the order of magnitude of the theft. Good luck, guys. Nobody else can find that money...