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This process is not without its hitches: as an American, he isn’t immediately welcomed into the fold by everyone. With a few exceptions, however, the culture clash is played for laughs...
...culture clash aspect is also dropped partway through the movie, straining the director’s credibility. The characters begin speaking dense British slang, but, once their consummate “Britishness” has been established, revert to the Queen’s English...
...consistently avoiding any semblance of a clash of ideas, the Bush administration has evacuated the content from their claims to conservatism, leaving only an empty husk of special interests, a coalition of hungry lobbyists looking for corporate handouts and Senators at the trough of pork-barrel politics. Most conservatives never liked Bush’s hallmark “compassionate conservatism” catchphrase—does it mean that real conservatism is heartless?—but there was always hope that somewhere, buried beneath the steel tariffs and bloated highway bills, there was a core of actual philosophy...
This kind of growth attracts company, and Bass Pro's closest rival is Cabela's, which went public last year. Stock-market analysts are already nervous that the two companies are growing so fast that they will begin to clash directly, although, as Hagale says, it's a big country. The boat business doesn't have clear sailing either. Industry leader Brunswick is on a vertical-integration tear, a strategy that brought another firm, Outboard Marine, into bankruptcy. Genmar stepped in to feed on the remains, but Jacobs warns that a further shakeout looms in a market that is stagnant...
...core, the controversy is a clash between the gentlemanly amateurism that has characterized the Indian side and the hard-nosed professionalism that Chappell, a former captain of Australia's national team, was brought in to instill in India's talented but often lackadaisical players. His arrival in July was taken as a signal that their days of lackluster performances?the Zimbabwe tour, the first of Chappell's tenure, was also the first away test series India won in two decades?were over. But Chappell's ambition hasn't sat well with some players: bowler Harbhajan Singh complained to reporters that...