Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Candidates find him odd but endearing--he tells them they can win, knows all about their state, cites chapter and verse on their careers. Roemer calls him "the weirdest guy I ever met in politics"--and Roemer is friends with another eccentric, Clinton's strategist, James Carville. "A wild man, yelling and screaming, all over your back. I said, 'Give that man a machete! I want him on my side.'" But sometimes candidates wonder whose interests come first with Morris. Roemer's campaign against the scandal-plagued Edwards was based on Roemer's pledge to reject all PAC money...
...YORK: The SEC approved a sweeping set of reforms designed to increase confidence and bring more small investors into the Nasdaq Stock Market. Nasdaq, home to such high-tech firms as Netscape, and Microsoft, has experienced a wild growth boom as investors flock to tech stocks. But two government investigations earlier this summer turned up allegations that dealers were engaging in price-fixing by not allowing all investors news of the best prices on the electronically traded market. As a result of the investigation, Nasdaq was formally censured by the SEC and ordered to provide more oversight of dealers...
...think, hell, he didn't get it. So I'd wait a couple hours, next day, and I'd think he's forgotten, and he'd say, 'I heard all that.' That's an amazing trait." All that processing power left little air space for reflection or curiosity or wild-eyed reverie. He thrived in a place where big dreams tended to die in the details and grand vision was best left to the think tanks and the bully pulpiteers in the White House...
Perhaps late into the dank night, when the Smores have congealed to the consistency of government cheese and the sleeping bag begins to feel more like a moist Baggie, certain outdoorsmen begin to wish for the unspeakable: that the call of the wild would be answered by room service...
...unpredictability, even the out-of-control Dalmatian, were all part of Sublime's volatile appeal. Gaugh says he and his bandmates were looking for extremes, for the raw experience that could help them write and perform compelling rock. For Nowell, harder drugs than alcohol were part of his wild ride to artistic inspiration. Gaugh says now, not surprisingly, that it was "definitely the wrong...