Word: schemer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends that Ross didn't like his independence of mind. Others say the troubles stemmed largely from personality clashes between the ostensibly equal chieftains. "There are not two people more mismatched," says a top executive. In Ross, he maintains, "you have a dreamer and a visionary, a plunger and schemer"; in Nicholas "a guy who's small and risk averse. You could hardly get a yes out of him. He loved the status quo." While Ross is generally described as a charmer, Nicholas "is not a likable guy," says a director. Some executives and directors had the impression Nicholas...
...patrolled by the British army or the RUC; there is little street life and to the residents, the enemy is an invisible force behind a wall. Robert, younger but more spirited, wants out of Belfast. He hopes to immigrate to Australia someday. Frankie is less of a schemer, more of a follower. His father is a member of the U.D.F., the Ulster Defense Force, one of the Protestant paramilitary groups. He doesn't know what he will do when he grows up, except perhaps end up like his father. "I dunno," he says listlessly, "maybe I'll join something...
...take these schemer's ridiculous, convoluted advice. Take mine. I say that what really matters during your job interview isn't what you don't do, For example, don't point at a picture of the interviewer's children and snicker...
...overheard one such schemer communicating with one of my roommates (known to friends as "The Human Resume") at the Office of Career Services...
Parmet's Nixon is not the driven, tortured, fascinating schemer of popular memory or Watergate fame. In fact, that career-ending scandal merits only six pages at the book's close. Instead, Parmet paints Nixon as a regular guy, a mediator between the forces of welfare statism and cold war red bashing. Every rap against the former President -- from his 1952 slush fund to the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam -- is thoroughly ventilated and, in most cases, dismissed. Nixon, says Parmet, was merely a child of his times, who "harnessed the unease that lay just below the surface...