Word: opportunist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local TV newscaster Wayne Satz, who early on reported the ghastliest accusations against the McMartins with sensationalistic relish. From talk-show hosts to newspaper reporters, the media avidly portrayed the McMartins as torturers. Even Ray Buckey's lawyer Danny Davis-played intriguingly by James Woods as part camera-ready opportunist, part righteous upholder of justice-presumed the McMartins guilty at first...
...election Hanselman beat outgoing vice president Joshua D. Liston '95, who was painted by each of his three opponents as a scandal-burdened political opportunist...
...allow more irrigation and Mulwray opposes the plan on physical principles, a view which will soon prove fatal. The thematic importance of water escalates with the drought that the region currently suffers. Water is literally life and death in Los Angeles, and to a ruthless opportunist it is a potential source of profit as well...
...earnest with harsh partisan sniping on both sides. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) invoked the threat of a filibuster, calling the bill floated by Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine) "anathema to everything I believe is right for America." This prompted Hillary Rodham Clinton to call Gramm a political opportunist "ranting and raving about socialized medicine." The bill calls for employer mandates as a backup measure and aims to cover 95 percent of the population. No vote is expected before next Wednesday...
Born in Brooklyn in 1927 to a once affluent Jewish family that lost everything in the Depression, Ross was a young opportunist without an opportunity until he married a woman whose father owned a string of funeral parlors. Within a few years, Ross expanded the company's businesses to include car rentals, parking lots and cleaning services. In 1967 Ross acquired a powerful talent agency, and two years later, he bought the faltering Warner Bros. studio...