Word: savioring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...succeed Saddam eventually. Soon, however, it became clear that this was not to be. Foreign officials who met him were unimpressed by his character: "Completely inflexible," said a senior Jordanian security official, "and sick in his mind to the extent that he believes only he can be the savior of Iraq and anyone else who attempts to save Iraq is a traitor." As for those in the Iraqi opposition, they dismissed him as a bloody agent of the repression they had fled. "He made approaches to a lot of us," said Ahmed Chalabi, leader of an opposition group. "He wanted...
...half the cast has not picked up on the sense of mirth that overrides the bitterness. It as if we were not watching a comedy at all. Lady Windemere and her suitor Lord Darlington play their unhappiness straight as if she were a trapped maid and he her sentimental savior. The two have such a hard time with Wilde's snappy dialogue that their love affair of miscues is in mortal danger of never getting off the ground...
Amelio, 52, seems a plausible choice as Apple's next savior. When he arrived at National Semiconductor in 1991, the company was nearly bankrupt. Last year it reported record profits of $264 million on sales of $2.4 billion. Amelio chopped the 33,000-employee work force by nearly one-third, closed or sold five of the company's 14 factories and devised a business strategy that streamlined its products...
...title--nearly dying when that cad John Willoughby (Greg Wise) leaves her for a woman better endowed financially; the romantic occlusion that prevents Marianne from seeing what everyone else can see, that the good Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman), despite a certain stiffness in his emotional joints, is her savior...
...IACOCCA Erstwhile savior of Chrysler a defendant in a lawsuit. The plaintiff: Chrysler...