Word: mavericks
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Massive infusions of Russian capital, raw materials and technology are pushing Bulgaria into the industrial age. A major reason for Bulgaria's windfall lies in its geographic position. The only trustworthy Soviet satellite in the Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria is bordered by relatively independent Rumania, maverick Yugoslavia, and two NATO member states, Greece and Turkey. Expanding Soviet interest in the nearby Middle East and Mediterranean has given this 43,000-sq. mi. enclave new strategic importance. Although the Kremlin is so confident of Bulgarian loyalty that no Russian troops are stationed there, the Soviets have deployed "Frog" and "Skud" ground...
ILLINOIS. In defeating Republican Incumbent Richard B. Ogilvie, maverick Democrat Daniel Walker came to a high point in a long and curious political journey. He won national attention four years ago as the author of the report that blamed "police riots" for a share of the disorders surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Then the tall, tanned lawyer, now 50, quit his $100,000-a-year job at Montgomery Ward vowing to overturn both the G.O.P. organization downstate and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine in Cook County. After he had hiked in denims 1,197 miles...
...glad I'll be able to deal with a panel and not a secret maverick group of the Steering Committee," he added...
...last meeting, we discussed a boycott of these elections, but ultimately decided against it. The people who organized this slate and the so-called 'maverick group' are one and the same," he said
Thompson has been drifting into trouble for some time, a victim of bad luck, overconfidence and the relentless forces of change. In the past year and a half the agency has lost $50 million in billings, including such choice accounts as Ford's Pinto and Maverick cars, the domestic advertising for Pan American and Singer and all of Firestone. Thompson has snared about $30 million in new business during this period, so its net loss in billings over the 18 months has been held to about $20 million. Still, disenchanted investors have sent its stock tumbling from a high...