Word: anglo-saxon
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Until recently, calling a european executive Anglo-Saxon was considered a compliment. It meant the manager had a global outlook, was focused on the bottom line and gave top priority to keeping shareholders happy. Lately, however, the term has become an insult, suggesting an egotistical empire builder more interested in expanding the company through acquisitions than in the health of the core business...
...first to come to grief over his Anglo-Saxon ambitions was Jean-Marie Messier, a Frenchman equally at home in New York as in Paris. Messier was forced out as chief executive of entertainment giant Vivendi Universal last month because he ran up huge debts in a spree of expensive media acquisitions, among other sins...
...ruled out the family's selling any of its holdings. "A change of the enterprise strategy was appropriate because of the quick and dramatic changes on the world markets," he said. In other words, the insular, rural German culture of Gütersloh had triumphed over the Anglo-Saxon...
...Jesus that is being worshipped is presented as a white, Anglo-Saxon male,” he said, adding “Republican” a few moments later...
...Bush gave last week. When Kipling wrote those words, 100 years ago, the British Empire had been humbled in South Africa by a small group of Boer fighters who hated the overweening presence of Queen Victoria's realm. They were scruffy, hairy faced, profoundly religious in their battle against Anglo-Saxon materialism and extremely hard to find and destroy. It took no less than 300,000 men from Britain and the other dominions to overwhelm the Afrikaaner resistance in a three-year campaign. "We have had no end of a lesson," Kipling warned. British military forces were not equipped...