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...trouble, Müller says. "You just needed to read the balance sheet." The Airbus deal in particular saddled Sabena with impossible red ink. Müller points out that the Sabena order at the time was twice the stock-market value of Swissair, its bigger partner. "You cannot commit to an investment volume that exceeds the capitalization," he says. "It doesn't require airline operating experience to know that...
Referencing historical examples, such as British imperial rule in India and public humiliation during the Chinese communist revolution, he said that oppressors can more easily commit violence against people whom they habitually degrade...
Conversely, he said, people who receive little respect, particularly in childhood, often commit violent acts to attain recognition...
...approval of the dean,” Hanson said. “Because of the City of Cambridge, [later hours] have to be approved each year, so I think that it’s just in the nature of things that this is not something we can commit to in perpetuity...
...borne that out." Racists, street thugs and school bullies all polled high on the self-esteem charts. And you can see why. If you think you're God's gift, you're particularly offended if other people don't treat you that way. So you lash out or commit crimes or cut ethical corners to reassert your pre-eminence. After all, who are your moral inferiors to suggest that you could be doing something, er, wrong? What do they know...