Instead we were looking for incompetence on a grander scale: the maverick philosophies that were always destined for disaster, the individual actions that had the most devastating effects on the clubs they managed, and the inflated reputations in need of reappraisal.
With 25 years of stock market experience, Markowski developed a maverick research philosophy while working at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, where he kept an eye on what happened to companies' stocks when cash flow turned south.
Communist leaders say polls do not reflect a broader discontent in the population and rising unhappiness with Mr. Putin's somewhat maverick free-market philosophy.
People who came to the Village from places like Minnesota (Dylan) and California (Joan Baez) found themselves in a village of coffeehouses, bookshops and cheap railroad flats, a place that tolerated sexual freedom, radical politics, offbeat philosophies and mavericks with no philosophy at all.
After being elected to Congress from the coastal district of Lake Jackson, Tex., in 1976, Paul developed a reputation as a maverick conservative Republican whose philosophy would sometimes dictate that he vote with ultraliberal Democrats.
An imaginative maverick, he became a critic of philosophy of science itself, particularly of "rationalist" attempts to lay down or discover rules of scientific method.
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His first book was on Spinoza, and he subsequently devoted scrupulous, often maverick, studies to major figures of political philosophy from Plato and Maimonides to Machiavelli, Hobbes and the framers of the American Constitution.
That philosophy put Cather at odds with the Western, in which maverick men claim the wilderness as their own.
A popular speaker on the corporate lecture circuit, Mr. Iverson distilled his business philosophy into a book, "Plain Talk: Lessons From a Business Maverick".
