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Word: supershort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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...from the 1971 rescue effort, not everyone in the industry was sorry to see Perot take such a bath. He was distrusted for his blind faith in computerization as a key to the industry's survival, for his nostalgic standards of employee dress (dark suits, narrow ties and supershort hair), and for the heretical notion that brokers be compensated on the basis of how well their clients' stocks perform rather than on how many shares they turn over. "He alienated a lot of the jerks in the industry with these techniques, and they are all talking him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Perot's Orderly Retreat | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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