Word: antagonistical
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...much of the perceived Microsoft problem the filing doesn't tackle and how many possible remedies Klein didn't request: an outright breakup of the company, say, or a court-ordered "Chinese wall" between its operating-system and application development efforts. Sun CEO and No. 1 Gates antagonist Scott McNealy tossed out his own provocative suggestion last week: make Gates sell his interests in the many companies he's bought into in recent years and prevent him from scarfing up anyone new for 10 years. "They talk about all their innovation," says McNealy. "Well, let them innovate, and not take...
...Wings also got some payback on an old antagonist: Nikolai Khabibulin...
Khomeini was then the disciple of Iran's pre-eminent cleric, Ayatullah Mohammed Boroujerdi, a defender of the tradition of clerical deference to established power. But in 1962, after Boroujerdi's death, Khomeini revealed his long-hidden wrath and acquired a substantial following as a sharp-tongued antagonist of the Shah...
...heavy-handed and visible a tactic that no one would try it. That was what White House press secretary Mike McCurry meant in September when he said, "We do dumb things from time to time, but we are not certifiably crazy." Jones, however, would not be the first Clinton antagonist to be audited. So was Billy Dale, a chief figure in the scandal involving the White House travel office. According to the letter from the 21 Republicans, that audit looked fishy enough to begin with. According to the Washington Post, "Either lightning really did strike twice," they wrote, "or individuals...
This is just the kind of entrepreneurial boldness that makes us such avid readers of the biographies and autobiographies of people who get rich quick, and one wonders why it has taken Hollywood so long to convert such types from shadowy antagonist--their usual role in thrillers--to shiny protagonist. One's next thought, of course, is the hope that Ransom does not signal the beginning of a trend...