Word: conquerer
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What's left to conquer when you've created a multibillion-dollar, universally recognized fashion empire? For designer Ralph Lauren, the final frontier of branding may just be found at the post office--in Jamaica, that is. This week the government of Jamaica will issue a commemorative stamp, above, featuring Lauren, the first American to be so honored. A visitor to the island for more than 20 years, Lauren is a recognized supporter of several local causes. But this is the real stamp of approval...
...caught between a rock and a hard place," reckons Credit Suisse First Boston economist Neville Hill: buoyant oil prices are contributing to higher inflation, but the bank can't raise rates because that would further strengthen the euro. Right now, the most Trichet can do is complain. Dividing to conquer? Could an antitrust cease-fire between Microsoft and its most bitter rivals spell trouble for the E.U.'s competition police? The software behemoth last week convinced its competitor Novell to lay down arms in exchange for a $536 million payoff; Microsoft also ended a battle with the Washington D.C.-based...
...leaders from Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, all countries which have started EU accession negotiations. The three politicians also signed part of the document. “A united Europe is not only living up to its potential, it is also excluding war as a political means, since motives to conquer foreign territories will simply not exist in a united Europe,” said Croatian President Stipe Mesic the day after the event. Mesic, in Rome with observer status, hopes that his country will begin negotiations for EU accession in the near future. Of the six countries which emerged...
...command executing it. In Los Angeles, Jackson fought a losing battle getting players like Gary Payton, a former star with Seattle, to see its benefits. "Players would like to know that they are the target person in this particular time down the court, that they have an opportunity to conquer, demolish their opponent," says Jackson. "They see it as an individualized action...
...have predicted. This is a particularly salient lesson for our time, as the threats we face are not yet massive enough to draw our undivided attention. While the Turks were still raiding the Anatolian steppe, few, if any, Europeans would ever have guessed that not only would they eventually conquer the “Second Rome,” a city which legend said would never be conquered, but that they would come within a hairs breadth of conquering Europe itself. Few realize how close the Turks came to breaking into the very heart of Europe...