Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lansing's appointment as the boss of Fox films was regarded as frivolous when it was announced in January 1980, a "figurehead" move, as another female film executive described it at the time. A former math teacher (in the racially tense Watts district of Los Angeles), Max Factor model, actress (with John Wayne in Rio Lobo) and $5-an-hr. script reader, Lansing moved to Fox from Columbia, where she had risen quickly to senior vice president of production...
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Wall Street remains avid for Chi-Chi's stock. The shares, which at one time sold for 66? (after adjusting for splits), closed last week at $27. The explosive run-up has made wealthy men of Chi-Chi's founders, Marno McDermott and Max McGee. McGee, 50, a former star of the Green Bay Packers, now owns some 150,000 Chi-Chi's shares, worth about $4 million, and is a director of the company. McDermott, 44, was chairman until he resigned in February. At that time he held some 330,000 shares...
Until recently, acknowledging Viet Nam veterans in such showy fashion would have connoted approval of the nightmarish war. However, "within the soul of each Viet Nam veteran," says Max Cleland, who lost both legs and a forearm in the war and headed the Veterans Administration under Jimmy Carter, "there is probably something that says, 'Bad war, good soldier.' " Their fellow Americans are only now coming to appreciate that distinction and, as Cleland says, "separate the war from the warrior." Mike Mullings of Bethany, Okla., a medic in Viet Nam, agrees that "things are changing. It might sound corny...
...Governor of Georgia in 1978, he hoped to mesmerize voters by featuring a hypnotist in his television ads. The conservative Republican lost the race but not his faith in the power of suggestion. This year, running for Georgia's secretary of state against former Veterans Administration Chief Max Cleland, Belluso hoped his new first name, which he had legally changed, would evoke a connection with his political idol. That did not work either. The man now known as Nick-Reagan Belluso got only 20% of the vote. Then he picked up and left. Said Belluso: "Georgia voters obviously...