Word: mavericks
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...maverick among designers, Kamali refuses to do fashion shows, feeling they stroke designers' egos more than they benefit customers. Often Kamali waits anonymously on customers. In that role, she gets honest feedback on her clothes: "You know instantaneously if you're right on target or if you're not with what people need and want." Kamali believes she has heard the message: she's going to keep on sweating. -By Georgia Harbison
...credibility problem of Reaganomics is based, in part, on its origins. In a sense, it was born one evening in December 1974, in the Two Continents restaurant in Washington, D.C. Three men were sipping drinks: Arthur Laffer, a young economist with an early-Beatles haircut who was considered a maverick by many of his colleagues; Jude Wanniski, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal; and Richard Cheney, a White House aide under President Ford...
DIED. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 82, maverick financier, mining tycoon, art collector and founder of the Hirshhorn Museum; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The Latvian-born Hirshhorn rose from penury to wealth through shrewd dealings in stocks, gold, uranium and oil, meanwhile amassing a high-quality hoard of 2,000 sculptures and 4,000 paintings valued at $50 million. He was persuaded by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 to donate his collection to establish the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., which the U.S. built eight years later at a cost of $15 million...
...high court upholds the lifting of a maverick's passport
...East last week after a 12-day absence. Habib had seemed close to working out an agreement among Israelis, Lebanese and Syrians that would cool the missile crisis in Lebanon. Indeed, the Israeli raid posed the question of whether the U.S. had any means at all of controlling the maverick actions of an increasingly independent nation that depends ultimately for its existence on the U.S. Or failing that, did the U.S. have any way of dissociating itself from those actions when they did occur...