Word: seat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student who could find a mismanaged company for the professor to chew up. Columbia nixed the offer, but Edelman's image as a buccaneer flourished. That same year he served as a role model for the fiendishly greedy Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. "I hunched in my seat as I watched that movie," says Edelman. "I've never committed any crimes...
...courteous as at their first meeting, even refused a chair in favor of a seat on the floor...
...Henkel. Keating bragged that he had won a seat on the FHLBB for his friend and business associate Henkel (Keating had lent more than $60 million to businesses in which Henkel was part owner) by lobbying former White House chief of staff Donald Regan. Henkel's stint on the board lasted only five months. Although he was cleared of any wrongdoing, he resigned after the Justice Department and the FHLBB investigated his first official act: a motion that would have specifically benefited Keating by exempting Lincoln from direct-investment limits...
...government will be formed. We extend to them our good wishes and offer them our constructive cooperation," said the 45-year-old former airline pilot, who won his own Parliament seat overwhelmingly for a third time...
...National Front and its allies picked up enough pledges of support from smaller parties yesterday to form a majority in the 543-seat Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, where the power lies...