Word: parlays
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...stay in the spotlight and, if he helps turn the company around, be a hero again. Yet Giuliani may learn that messing with the debt of bankrupt companies is not necessarily a career-enhancing move. The distressed-debt market is a playground for vulture investors, a place to parlay others' misfortunes into personal wealth. How would that resonate with voters? --By Daniel Kadlec
...Republican W. Mitt Romney tries to parlay his pivotal role in the fiscal bailout of the Olympics into the Bay State’s highest political office, he faces Democrat Shannon P. O’Brien in a race that has grown increasingly bitter and polemic in its closing days...
...with a pretty big agenda. “I didn’t want to leave [Atlanta] till I had found out really if I could have made it there,” he said, “I basically gave up Berklee…and I had to parlay every one of those moves [after that point] into at least the hope of getting to some goal.” A few years later, Mayer has made it big, proving that a shot in the dark is still a worth a shot...
Film director Gregory Nava (El Norte) did parlay that moment into a TV deal, but not with a commercial network. CBS signed him to make American Family, a drama pilot starring Edward James Olmos, Sonia Braga and Raquel Welch, unusual in that it portrayed a Latino family whose kids are upscale strivers. CBS passed but let Nava shop it around. The show landed at PBS, which will air 13 episodes next season. Cable has filled in some of the breach too, notably on Showtime's Resurrection Blvd., TV's first Hispanic drama, returning in June. Creator Dennis Leoni says...
...prominent figure in France’s electronica scene, Mirwais now sets his sights on American stardom with his latest release, Production. Best known here for producing Madonna’s hit single “Music,” the 39-year old is clearly attempting to parlay his 15 minutes of fame into pop success. However, with an album in which the misses far outweigh the hits, Mirwais’ stunning lack of sustained solo talent is the only clear point to emerge from Production’s muddled sound...