Word: upstart
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Sarah Huckabee is desperately looking for a volunteer. It's a frigid Des Moines Sunday afternoon and the daughter of the upstart Republican presidential candidate is holding court in her new corner office above the campaign's Iowa headquarters. Her dad, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, may suddenly be a front-runner in Iowa, and in South Carolina as well, but his rising profile has its own complications. Today she is dealing with a shortage of drivers for his motorcade on Tuesday because, lo and behold, they now need two media vans...
...Rumor has it you're looking to buy one of the upstart football leagues. Do you think it can get enough quality players from the NFL to make an impact? -Dave LaCasse, Wauwatosa, Wis.I don't think there's any question that the UFL [United Football League] or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts...
...refused to play by the rules, essentially ignoring the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the governing body that ran the airline business almost as a cartel. When SIA became the first IATA carrier to serve free drinks in economy, in 1972, the group's director dismissed the Asian upstart as a "parasite...
Such an insight was supposed to be a great strength of Citigroup, which combined a venerable global bank (founded as the City Bank of New York in 1812) with the upstart financial supermarket that Weill, the Brooklyn-born son of Polish immigrants, put together in the second act of his remarkable career...
...This latest campaign for upstart Nolita clothing is perhaps his most self-conscious and multi-layered, marketing a woman's fashion line in an effort to expose the problem of anorexia in fashion marketing. Toscani says people react to it because many suffer from a kind of "social anorexia" of deprivation and disappointment amidst the abundance of modernity. The nude image of the emaciated 26-year-old French actress in poses we are used to seeing struck by fashion models is indeed relentless in its rawness. Toscani says. "I always try to strip away and strip away until I arrive...