Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...vintner is the winery's wizard, responsible for deciding what grapes to plant where, when to harvest, how long to age a wine and in what kind of container. The names and reputations of California's star vintners are as well known to oenophiles as those of celebrity chefs are to ardent foodies. Sometimes their comings and goings provide rich material for gossip. Five days before the start of this year's harvest, Lake County's ambitious Kendall- Jackson Vineyard hired away John Hawley, the chief vintner at Sonoma's Clos du Bois. That was the sneaky equivalent...
...sobs that shook Michael Milken in Manhattan federal court last week punctuated the most dizzying fall from power in modern Wall Street history. They came as federal Judge Kimba Wood sentenced the financial wizard, whose junk bonds fueled the epic 1980s takeover wars, to 10 years in prison. Said the tearful felon: "What I did violated not just the law but all of my principles and values, and I will regret it for the rest of my life. I am truly sorry...
...many ofthem union members, make canvass phone calls longinto the night. And even on Newbury St., manypeople's faces take on a blank look when the nameDeJong--or Bulger, for that matter--is mentionedto them. One man asked about Bulger replied,"didn't he play the scarecrow in `The Wizard ofOz...
...also pointed to the success of Louisiana legislator David Duke, a former grand wizard in the Ku Klux Klan who recently lost to Democrat J. Bennett Johnston in a campaign for the U.S. Senate...
...team's general counsel and is now, at 42, general manager of the sport's dominant franchise. Says Alderson: "We needed to build up a scouting system, develop quality players in our farm system and expand it." From the farm came a bumper crop: Canseco, McGwire and wizard shortstop Walt Weiss, who would be voted American League Rookies of the Year...