Word: capitalistically
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...city" for a romantic weekend with the girls takes a sour turn. Surrounded by country side, Balki is emotionally transported back to Mepos, his home village. Suddenly he recalls his allegiance to the Warsaw Pact. In a fit of Violence , Balki slays Cousin Larry uttering the words "die ze capitalist goat...
...commercial and secular overpowering the sacred; a look at Manhattan shows us any number of churches dwarfed by skyscrapers, and even on Fifth Avenue, it's not clear that St. Patrick's Cathedral is any taller than Bergdorf Goodman. Well, this is America, a secular society with a capitalist economy, and commercial buildings should be taller than houses of worship. What you see is what...
While living in Castro's Cuba, Orlando Hernandez learned some powerful capitalist lessons. Foremost among them: Keep your negotiating options open. So it is that even though the U.S. has granted the defecting baseball star -- and half-brother of Florida Marlins World Series hero Livan -- permission to enter the U.S., Orlando has declined to leave. Instead, he's remaining in the Bahamas in hopes of establishing residency, either there or some other country other than the U.S.. The payoff could be huge: If Hernandez is a U.S. resident, he would have to go through baseball's draft and negotiate...
...always demanding. The people (mostly men) who work for him have inherited (and enforce) an engineer's creed that brings a bloodless "just fix it" intensity to everything from human relations to fabrication. "When I was at Intel, one of the most important values was discipline," says venture capitalist John Doerr, who worked for the firm for six years in the 1970s. "Andy Grove had no tolerance for people who were late or meetings that ran on without a purpose. It wasn't that he was a hard ass; it's just the nature of their business. There...
...dinner at his rambling ranch house. Sitting around the table was Intel's past, present and future: Grove's wife Eva, who fell in love with him when he was working as a busboy; Gordon Moore, Intel's first CEO and Grove's mentor; Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist who underwrote the company in 1968; and Craig Barrett, Intel's president, who will probably succeed Grove...