Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...militiaman's infinitely more satisfying present, a crowd applauds madly. He addresses the audience in Palm Springs. "If I fall," he asks, "who will pick up the flag?" And from his listeners, glad cries ring back, "I will! I will...
...stayed with his employer only three years before striking out on his own. After hooking up with a cash-strapped O-ring manufacturer in New Jersey, he was fortuitously introduced to a group of investors that included Baron Edmund de Rothschild and RCA's David Sarnoff. They put about $1 million into his company, but after growing nervous about Vesco's grandiose expansion plans, they allowed him to buy them out for only $12,500 (all except Rothschild, who stayed in and after 18 months made a profit of more than $1 million on his $250,000 investment...
...Boeing 707, which he outfitted with an office, bedrooms and a discotheque. To the annoyance of his neighbors, he built a heliport on his home property in suburban New Jersey. He liked to try to get away with things. He once bought his wife a $65,000 ring and then tried to get his company to pay him a bonus to cover its cost. A would-be partner reputedly told Vesco, "I had a dream. You and I slept together on a cold night. In the morning, you had all the blankets...
...Riley, who won four NBA titles in nine seasons as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, resigned today after failing to capture a championship ring in four seasons with the New York Knicks. Riley turned down a $15 million contract extension in part, says TIME sports writer Steve Wulf, because Knicks management would not give him the control he wanted to wield over the composition of the team...
...ultraconservative publication: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Well, I won't pretend that such hyperbolic rhetoric can be applied seriously to Harvard or that an editorial constitutes much more than "nothing." Nonetheless, the sentiment has always seemed to ring true. So please bear with me for a few moments...