Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government, "I have trampled the children under my horses' hooves. I have massacred the women so they will give birth to no more rebels." The new movie about the Vendee uprising, Vent de Galerne, has understandably garnered intense local support and money. Says Jean-Michel Mousset, a trucking-company owner from Ste.- Florence who put up $5,000: "In 1793 liberty, equality and fraternity was on our side, not on the side of the republicans...
...SALE: Continental Regency Hotel in Peoria, Ill. A city landmark with 333 rooms. Needs work. Anxious owner asks just $4 million...
During each successful contest, Ward crafts a picture of the owner that makes her an extreme caricature of the capitalist class. Sitting in her luxury box seat, flanked by her lackey general manager and two servants clad in white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...
Propellor-driven plane rides, nauseating bus-trips, broken hot tubs and cold showers follow as the owner makes it as hard as possible for the team...
Knowing that even their owner wants them to lose and, in fact, does everything she can to make them lose, the players bond together and battle as a team...