Word: maverick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Communist maverick Boris N. Yeltsin told the Supreme Soviet that local party and government leaders have been inactive and insensitive to people's needs because "they know they won't be re-elected...
Florida real estate investor Paul Bilzerian was determined to become a successful corporate raider. In 1985 and 1986 he attempted, and failed, to take over four different companies. In early 1988 the 38-year-old maverick managed to acquire defense contractor Singer by bidding for it when no one else would, right after the stock-market crash. Last week, however, Bilzerian finally made what will probably be his most lasting mark on Wall Street. In the first jury verdict to arise out of the Government's three-year crackdown on insider trading, Bilzerian was convicted on nine counts of securities...
...then there's Vellucci. Nominally an Independent, Vellucci has functioned as a political party unto himself for the last 38 years, a maverick councillor pursuing his own political agenda...
Unlike previous biographies, Citizen Welles gets to the bottom -- or should one say, false bottom -- of the man. At one level the book projects an old- world Promethean hero thundering against authority and convention. But conveyed with equal weight is an impresario of the self in the American maverick tradition of Charles Ives, Ezra Pound and even Mark Twain's the King and the Duke...
...Medicare reimbursement proposal was approved by a coalition of liberal Democrats and maverick Republicans breaking ranks with their party leadership. House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield) speculated last week that many of the 21 wayward Republicans would not support the amendment again if the matter were reconsidered...