Word: chutzpah
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...seize these opportunities, DreamWorks and its competitors will need both the vision thing and the chutzpah thing. "Because the costs of manufacture and marketing continue to rise," says Peter Rawley, executive vice president of the International Creative Management agency, "the audience has to be expanded very rapidly. So we have to squeeze the Chinese, get them to sign on. Add India, Southeast Asia, Latin America. And if you are going to spend the money to develop those markets, you'd better go with a full caravan. You can't be like Marco Polo and say, 'Oh, you like silk...
...Penny," as Hardaway is oh so inappropriately known, seems downright modest compared with Glenn Robinson, the top pick in this summer's N.B.A. draft. Robinson's agent is seeking a 13-year deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that would pay his client $100 million. Chutzpah? This is the same agent who arranged a party after the N.B.A. draft, where for a $10 fee, friends and admirers could come and celebrate Robinson's impending wealth. That's chutzpah...
...Schmitt, getting up there to debate the future of student government at Harvard took a lot of chutzpah (or ignorance). Deep down, I was almost rooting for the guy. Too bad he froze, like a deer in the headlights, when my fellow panelist Josh Feltman '95 asked him some specific questions about life at Harvard...
...names Chutzpah, by Harvard LawSchool Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, as anexample, but admits that many of the "betterbooks" cost more than a dollar...
...competition would be healthy for the majors. And, I suspect, anyone who had he chutzpah to start a new league would soon see thousand of frustrated fans, including this one, arrive at the ticket window...