Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discount brokerage, and has turned it into one of BankAmerica's minor gems (1985 profits: $11.4 million), with himself starring in the brokerage's television commercials. But the marriage soured as BankAmerica's fortunes plummeted, and the entrepreneurial Schwab earned a reputation as something of an impatient boardroom maverick. Indeed, he was known to have sold off most of his 850,000 BankAmerica shares last year...
...courts have challenged the government in an effort to protect the civil liberties of the country's black majority. Last week, as a three-judge panel of the Natal Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the state of emergency, the world saw a bold example of a maverick judicial system in action...
...Powell, for instance, whose opinion striking down explicit quotas but permitting race to be a "factor" in university admissions achieved the court's Solomonic compromise in the famed 1978 affirmativeaction case Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke. Justice John Paul Stevens is a thoroughly unpredictable maverick, and Justice Harry Blackmun, once derided as Burger's "Minnesota Twin," is now often allied with the court's liberal duo, Brennan and Marshall...
Instead Bachrach has given into the power of the Kennedy name and accepted his role as underdog. Bachrach seems to want to fight from the bottom, which makes him a maverick, the last thing the Democratic party needs right...
...ANGELES--While conceding there will be gaps in their planned coast-to-coast linkup, promoters of Hands Across America are already preparing to implement a maverick plan to distribute up to $50 million raised by the event...