Word: conquered
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...think Britain has been a hotbed of talent for rock 'n' roll over the decades? -Michael Diaz, New York City[Rock] came from America and [with] the Beatles, it started going back there. Now, the problem is that a lot of [British] bands are trying to conquer America, but America has [good] bands already. When we came out, we were this big, crazy pop band with these weird haircuts-which really weren't that weird, but that is what they said. We got lucky...
...that Boeing didn't build that averted what could have become one of the worst crash landings in the company's 91-year history--and cleared Boeing to conquer the skies again. In October 2002, executives of the aircraft manufacturer met with a group of global airline representatives at a conference center on the Seattle waterfront. The executives were trying desperately to figure out what to build next to hold off a soaring Airbus. One Boeing boss drew a graph on a whiteboard, the axes being cruising range and passenger numbers. Then he asked the airline representatives to locate their...
...Sharpay! Troy and Gabriella may provide the romance, but Sharpay is the hungry heart of the show, and Tisdale plays her with preening relish. She's the most brazen (and belly-baring) of the kids, but even her plot to conquer Troy is asexual and preadolescent; she just wants him to complete the picture of herself as school diva. He's the Ken doll that completes the play set. (Whether he's anatomically correct is irrelevant...
...President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have changed gear since his election in May. First, he named longtime Socialist Bernard Kouchner as his foreign minister, and included a handful of other leftists in his cabinet - a move denounced by the Socialists as taking advantage of personal ambition to divide and conquer the left. (Kouchner was expelled from the party.) Now, detractors charge, Sarkozy is seeking to sway the outcome of the Socialist Party's internal power struggle by off-shoring one of its main contenders, former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Sarkozy has nominated Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary...
...Respectable Game Show was a phenomenon of the atomic-age early days of TV, when postwar America embraced the idea of meritocracy and trusted in the best and brightest to conquer space and whup the Russkies. What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth were urbane soirées, frequented by brainiacs and swells like publisher Bennett Cerf and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle, and quiz shows celebrated academics. Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren...