Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he burst upon the takeover scene in the early 1980s, Asher Edelman seemed to have a magic touch. Bright, brash and hyperconfident, he reaped more than $40 million in instant profits for himself and his investors by raiding and liquidating two dreary companies: Management Assistance, a computer maker, and Canal-Randolph, a real estate firm. Suddenly superrich, the Bard College graduate, reared on Long Island, N.Y., bought fashionable residences from Sun Valley to Switzerland, a 100-ft. yacht, a personal jet and a modern-art collection today rumored to be worth $100 million...
...rush to buy is rooted in the new middle class's love of ostentation. Many Indians consider those Punjabis who are most at home in Delhi to be particularly brash entrepreneurs and deride the type as the "puppy," for "prosperous urban Punjabi who is young." But where the consumer itch is involved, even ordinary Indians are not above one-upmanship. Onida, a television manufacturer, runs a national ad campaign with the slogan, "Neighbor's envy, owner's pride...
CINEMA: The "new Olivier" makes a brash Henry...
...easy one. Fired from the Politburo two years ago, Boris Yeltsin performed the impossible in Soviet politics -- a comeback -- and skated to victory in parliamentary elections last March. Since then, however, Yeltsin has been sniped at by both opponents and supporters of Mikhail Gorbachev for being too brash and publicity hungry in his criticisms about the pace of perestroika. Last week Yeltsin was shot at again, but this time the volley went right through his foot, and the finger on the trigger...
...necessary decisions made. And he was ever leery of leaks and resentful of the personal ties to reporters that Atwater and other heavyweights had. Yet it was Junior who went on the record with a Newsweek correspondent to deny salacious gossip about the candidate. It was a brash act that both got the adultery rumor into print and choked off its circulation. Occasionally Atwater used him as an emissary to the candidate when the mission was delicate. It fell to Junior to present the idea that Bush would strengthen his image by "swinging the ax" on Don Regan...