Word: bravadoes
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...hobbies - hiking, B movies and books - he loves to play hardball buying cars. His bargaining skills are so legion that a car salesman asked him, "Where the hell'd you learn to negotiate?" Gates replied, "I had a lot of practice with the Soviets," allowing an example of Washington bravado to leak from his lips. Negotiating what he wants in the corridors of power - no one does it better, say his friends...
...Bravery. Bravado. Machismo. These qualities create superior football players. But they can be poisonous. "You've got to change the culture, change the mentality," says Turley. "This whole archaic notion that football is everything, all these stupid things coaches go around saying, comparing football to the military...
...Harvard Club of Toronto chose to host the event downtown at the Jump Bar, which is a “Big bold American-style bistro, packing plenty of bravado: sky-high glass atrium ceilings, rich wood interiors and a killer New York style bar.” Irony aside, it was quite a nice venue. The entire area surrounding the bar had been reserved by the HCT, and Cindy Maxwell '92, MD '97, President of the HCT, warmly greeted everyone personally and handed out nametags in English and French...
...double s___ and bulls___"), and it blew up online. Also on the Internet: footage of Pincus speaking at a University of California, Berkeley, event about how he funded his start-up. "I did every horrible thing in the book to just get revenues right away," he said. It's bravado that now makes Pincus wince: "I was selling myself short...
...collapse. Gasparino is particularly good at capturing--via the profane, telling quote--the high-noon drama of the meltdown. When Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack tells Lehman boss Dick Fuld, "There are rumors that you guys are in trouble," Fuld, the "Gorilla of Wall Street," answers with tough-guy bravado, "It's bullshit." Lehman's stock price was soon in free fall...