Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president of the Harvard College Democrats, Joseph N. Sanberg '01, introduced Sleeper as a man with a "maverick political outlook...
...president of the Harvard College Democrats, Joseph N. Sanberg '01, introduced Sleeper as a man with a "maverick political outlook...
...wealth for shareholders in the process. Who wouldn't want a foe like that? By the time Roger Enrico walked into the chief executive's suite at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, N.Y., three years ago, the company's performance had detached itself from its image as a vaunted marketing maverick that launched the cola wars in the '80s. The numbers tell all: in the U.S., Pepsi sells a single soda for every three Cokes. The troops were as confused and demoralized as Enrico had seen in his 27 years with the company--"shell-shocked," says Phil Marineau, who arrived...
...chairman Michel Pebereau, who is regarded as a maverick in the clubby world of French banking, hailed his plan as "the best possible for the French banking system," but Societe Generale and Paribas rejected the offer as unfriendly. Fighting to save their original merger, the two takeover targets promised an additional $280 million in savings to their shareholders, bringing the total to $1 billion, closer to Pebereau's pledge of $1.4 billion in "synergies" at the new bank...
...tried to channel the pain of those experiences into her music. "It wasn't someone writing for me; it wasn't someone telling me what I felt," says Hill, who wrote and produced the songs on Miseducation. "It was exactly how I felt the moment I felt it." Her maverick vision hasn't been without controversy. Late last year a group of four musicians who worked on Miseducation filed a suit claiming they deserved additional songwriting credits. Hill denies the allegations. Gordon Williams, who worked as the sound engineer on every song, says, "Definitely the driving force behind that record...