Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primary would be a shootout between Harman, an astute but little-known politician whose campaign is based on equal parts of gender (57% of California Democrats are women) and wealth (her husband, audio-component magnate Sidney Harman, has given millions to her cause), and Checchi, a leveraged-buyout wizard who has already spent $30 million on the primary, a record for a statewide campaign. Checchi's commercials have been blitzing viewers since November; he hired Bill Clinton's pollster, Ted Kennedy's media man, a cadre of 29 policy wonks and even a platoon of temps to cheer...
...company, owned by Houston-based junk bond wizard Charles Hurwitz, would just as soon swat this photogenic Butterfly off her tree. It has disrupted her sleep with air horns and floodlights, placed 24-hour guards around the tree in an aborted effort to cut off supplies from her support team, and sent in chain saws and helicopters to harvest around her. On a video distributed by Earth First, helicopter blades are shown churning the branches of Butterfly's aerie, as a hard hat shouts from below, "Get ready for a bad hair...
...about their re-elections to pass a massive, old-fashioned, pork-laden, budget-busting spending bill last week. The rallying cry was, "Take care of your district!" Meaning, "Protect your seat!" In district after district where Clinton is running plenty strong atop a buoyant economy, the President is a Wizard, a witch doctor, the guy with spooky, powerful voodoo; he can outlive, outlast, outmaneuver anything, even multiple, degrading, humiliating sex scandals. The G.O.P. members see the stories and then look at his numbers and look back at the stories and their heads just spin. What does this guy eat? they...
...only is Zhu Rongji an economic wizard, but he is also most definitely a personality. At a gathering I attended this year, he captivated a crowd of Chinese businessmen and government leaders during a half-hour talk on everything from Beijing bureaucracy to environmental protection and China's commitment not to devalue its currency. He tackled silly as well as serious subjects. Economic and political wizards are a dime a dozen, but few can cast serious problems in so humorous a light--and move the audience not only to laugh but also to do something. I hope the 69-year...
...involved in a scattering of businesses, but Yan admits that in the future he wants to own and manage his own empire, with his biggest ambitions centered on media and such nonideological magazines as PC World and the Chinese version of Popular Mechanics. And though he has proved a wizard at attracting capital, Yan has yet to prove himself as a manager. He has had a hard time attracting and retaining foreign managers, something that will be essential if Richina is to continue growing...