Word: trumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strip which can draw comments from notables ranging from President Bush to Donald Trump must be a major part of American political and social commentary. While this means that Trudeau has garnered the respect (or if not respect, at least interest) of many, it also means that he has a responsibility to be fair...
...pull at the tales of Harvard's gowns. The faculty and students at Harvard do not seem like those in the outside world. And the institution does not act like other institutions. From the outside, it appears, Harvard has more money than God and the students more confidence than Trump...
...There are countless examples. The sense of arrogance can be Donald Trump saying his bankers were tossing money at him or John Gutfreund's Salomon Brothers cornering the treasury-bill market illegally and failing to report it. It can be Leona ("Only the little people pay taxes") Helmsley and her bragging to a little person who is going to be her undoing. The sense of aloneness is born of a mistrust of underlings, which can approach Howard Hughes' isolationism. The adventure-seeking behavior can be insider trader Dennis Levine plotting to dupe SEC regulators with offshore bank accounts. Pete Rose...
...What's Trump's problem...
...even been in an Allied department store! -- managed to acquire first Allied and then Federated, ultimately controlling a U.S. retailing empire with $9 billion in sales -- and $11 billion in debt. A short time later, of course, Campeau's empire collapsed -- but this is my point! Campeau went bust; Trump's on a leash; the guy who rented the QE 2 for his son's bar mitzvah sank; Boesky, who arrived at that bar mitzvah in mid-cruise via friend John Mulheren's helicopter, went to jail; so did Mulheren, briefly (but not before setting out with an assault rifle...