Word: robber
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Still, Romney’s resume reads “robber baron” to some. When Romney ran against Sen. Edward M Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) in 1994, Kennedy skewered the newbie with TV ads blasting Romney over an Indiana company’s layoffs prompted by then owner, Bain Capital. (Romney was on leave from Bain during the firings...
...voice. Warshow held that the classic movie mobsters (Little Caesar, The Public Enemy) were, in their essence, classic Americans forced by their status as the sons of immigrants to seek success and status outside the law, even though their style and motives were not so very different from the robber barons who found their riches in more respectable industries. The difference between the gangsters and, say, John D. Rockefeller, was that their methods of eliminating the competition was, shall we say, somewhat more strenuous, and that ultimately they paid a deadly price for their depredations...
...were killed. Last year, 32 were murdered in and around Cape Town alone. Black South Africans have begun purging their neighborhoods. Last August in Cape Town, a crowd of 200 drove Somalis out of the seaside township of Masiphumele. On February 12, after a Somali shopkeeper fired on a robber and killed a passerby in Port Elizabeth, a mob looted and burned 89 Somali stores...
...shaping up to be a very hot summer of contract talks. The company's rank and file are less than thrilled about their employer's leaving the warm embrace of Germany and falling into the hands of New York financiers. "These private-equity firms are like modern-day robber barons," said a worker at the company's Warren truck plant outside Detroit. "People are feeling betrayed by the management...
...still awake?” Tuan and Dasher said nothing was taken from the room during the incident. This is not the first time the three residents of this room have experienced a break-in. Earlier this year, an iPod and video camera were stolen from their residence. The robber left a note in the form of a PowerPoint presentation on Dasher’s computer that insulted the roommates and Dasher’s concentration. Since the first robbery, the three roommates have been very careful to lock their door, leaving it open only when they were present...