Word: maverickly
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...procurement have been so huge for so long that they've almost lost their power to shock--but not quite. In the past 30 years, only 10 percent of all new weapons systems have been brought in under budget. Between March and July, the cost of one system--the Maverick air-to-ground missile--increased by 25 percent. McDonnell-Douglas told the Navy last month that the cost of another new weapon, the F-18 fighter, would increase by a third from its original price...
...anyone deserves the maverick lable, it's Weicker. In Congress, he has voted against the GOP line as often as not, earning the wrath of the Republican hierarchy. On issues like busing, which he favors, and school prayer, which he opposes, Weicker has adhered to traditionally Democratic positions. And when Weicker stands alone among his party peers, he by no means constitutes a silent majority. "The problem with Lowell," says one Republican official in New Haven, "is that he makes too much goddamn noise...
...Clown, a costumed Moffett staffer seeking to symbolize the incumbent's election-year renunciations of his 1981 votes for the President's budget and tax cuts. Weicker, whose slogan has been "Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed maverick, a legitimate characterization. The polls have offered contradictory predictions. And there is also an X factor confusing everyone's calculations: the presence of Conservative Party Candidate Lucien DiFazio, who is positioned to siphon off some of Weicker's support. "If DiFazio pulls 7%," said a Democratic campaign strategist last...
...could this be happening? With obsessive drive, a brilliant mastery of automotive engineering and management techniques, and a maverick's allure, De Lorean, barely out of his 30s, had risen to rule the Pontiac and Chevrolet divisions of giant General Motors. He had charmed his way into the glitzier show-biz celebrity circles, dating the likes of Candice Bergen, Nancy Sinatra and Ursula Andress before selecting his third wife, Actress-Model Cristina Ferrare, 32 (he is 57). Impatient with the corporate world's slow decision making, he had quit GM to race down a faster track. He had persuaded Britain...
...says he began planning his drug-dealing scheme in earnest, De Lorean told a group of sports car dealers: "We will do anything to keep this company alive." But what he really seemed committed to keeping alive was an image of himself: John De Lorean, the smart and plucky maverick businessman, the high-stakes gambler who makes his own rules and always wins...