Word: goad
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...trying to take over a struggling Florida S&L and in 1987 was named in a complaint filed by a rival group. The matter was settled out of court, with no hint of scandal. The Cuomo camp thinks the Republican attacks are in part an election-year attempt to goad the thin-skinned Governor into losing his temper. Says one of the Governor's advisers: "Who's Ed Rollins? Operatives are very good at slinging mud, and you can't win if you engage them...
There he encountered what he remembers as "a quiet current of anti- Semitism" for the first time, another goad for him to excel. At New Trier high school, he began writing for the school newspaper and quickly determined that he had found his life's work -- one that promised glory at least equal to his father's, and on his own terms. "I told my parents," he says, "that I had abandoned their lifelong ambition for me to be a doctor. I was going to be a writer...