rising star
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Her divorce filings say she returned to Pinetop to help her ailing parents, but the hardscrabble town 7,000 feet high in Arizona’s eastern White Mountains is also where she was once considered a rising star, where culture is steeped in tradition and religion, and where familial bonds are staked in blood ties.
From Los Angeles Times
Among them: Dhivya Suryadevara, a high-profile finance chief in 2020, Dan Ammann, Barra’s former No. 2 in 2021, and Marissa West, a rising star who left last year just eight months after joining GM’s senior leadership team.
Beau Greaves - how far can darts' rising star go?
From BBC
But it’s the careful steering of Michael Douglas as a widowed U.S. leader and rising star Annette Bening as an extra-persuasive eco-lobbyist that distinguish this gentle comedy, one that seems positively alien to our current climate.
From Los Angeles Times
Stock in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway fell 1.4% after the company disclosed many leadership changes ahead of Buffett’s departure as chief executive officer, most notably that rising star Todd Combs would be leaving for JPMorgan Chase.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
