Word: ego
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...power, an ego trip. Ed Gray was ignorant, a person whose background was public relations, all of a sudden being put in charge of a $1 trillion industry. Where do you think they got these regulators? Off the streets, out of ads. They took this conglomeration of inexperienced and untrained people and they say, O.K., go out and cope with the Charlie Keatings who are diversifying the S&Ls. You've got a bunch of know-nothings trying to tell business people how to invest money...
...most powerful firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties was at the center of a gold-rush culture that bankrolled corporate raiders and often seemed consumed by vanity, ego and greed. Drexel vanished almost overnight last week when its parent company, a victim of the very junk-bond market that Drexel had created, filed for bankruptcy. The firm's legacy is a debt-laden corporate America and a backlash against excess...
...decade just past. The poet Robert Lowell once wrote in an ode to a friend, "Yet really we had the same life, the generic one/ our generation offered." In much the same way, these tales of the 1980s tend to merge into one generic portrait of vanity, ego and greed. Historians may come to see the '80s in a kinder and more diverse light, but the image of the decade in these books is unquestionably the prevailing one today...
Armed with a healthy ego, a sharp mind and sharper tongue, the 63-year-old Texan has rarely if ever been known to be diplomatic. But he doesn't seem worried about transferring his pugnacious style from academe to politics. "I'm an outsider to political office but experienced in making change," he said in announcing his candidacy last month. Silber is convinced that an outsider is exactly what Massachusetts voters want, and a recent poll offers some support for his theory...
Thus says the socially insecure world conqueror Tamburlaine, in Christopher Marlowe's play of the same name, to Bajazeth, Emperor of the Turks. Tamburlaine puts the defeated Emperor in a cage and has him wheeled around to subsequent battle sites. Quite a comedown for the Emperor. And quite an ego boost for Tamburlaine, the former shepherd...