Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assault on Hitler's Aryan-superiority theory with his victory in the 100, the first of his four gold medals. African Americans would in fact win all but three Olympic 100s from 1932 to 1968. The blessing of modern professionalism is that runners can keep running; Owens had to resort to racing thoroughbreds in exhibitions, and the '64 and '68 winners, Bob Hayes and Jim Hines, turned to pro football for their livelihood...
...look like talk shows and other entertainment programs; those minute-long "Movie News" segments, frequently run during local newscasts, may look like clips from Entertainment Tonight, but they are actually commercials for Disney films. In 1994 NBC aired a prime-time special on the newly opened Treasure Island resort and casino in Las Vegas that was produced by Stephen Wynn, who owns the place. ABC, CBS and NBC have all run prime-time specials on the making of such big Hollywood films as The Lion King and Wyatt Earp--specials produced by the studios releasing the films...
Berry's five-year tenure at HDS came after a lifetime in the foodservice industry. Beginning at age 13, when he started working at a resort in his home state of New Hampshire, Berry used what subordinates and superiors alike describe as superb interpersonal skills to advance within the field...
...girdle buyer at Macy's to head cosmetics giant Max Factor. In 1986 she masterminded a hostile buyout at Warnaco and took the company public in 1991. As a mogul, she helicopters from her Park Avenue headquarters to a mansion in the Hamptons, New York's summer-resort community. As a manager, Wachner once made a FORTUNE roster of "Toughest Bosses" for her low tolerance for underperformers. "You'd better start firing people," the magazine quoted her telling a newly arrived executive, "so they'll understand you're serious...
...equals of the apparatchiks they replaced in enriching themselves at public expense. Very quickly, the word democrat became synonymous with incompetent and corrupt. Ask anyone on the streets of Moscow what they think of Russian democracy today and the most likely answer will be "What democracy?" Western diplomats may resort to sophistry in explaining how Yeltsin remains the country's best democratic hope, but few Russians have any illusions now about Yeltsin, who is known, not quite accurately, as their first "popularly elected" President. To them he seems to have reverted to his former role as an imperious, provincial party...