Word: conquest
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...Texas, aiming to build the next generation of its full-size Tundra pickup there and--if all goes as planned--finally conquer the U.S. truck market. Achieving that feat would mark a milestone for Toyota in its quest to become the great American car company and would follow its conquest of virtually every other market segment, from compact cars to luxury SUVs (by way of Lexus). Indeed, the Tundra was considered so important that Toyota's entire executive design-approval committee, more than 30 members, flew to the U.S. to sign off on the final design...
...most conspicuous and skillful example of a leftward tilt is the R.S.C.'s anti-imperialist version of Shakespeare's celebration of conquest, Henry V. This was the text that Laurence Olivier used on film to rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands vision, the play becomes a chronicle of doomed and bloody consequences of meddling abroad. In its most striking visual image, the names of the dead from the Battle of Agincourt are inscribed on a scrim resembling the Viet Nam memorial wall in Washington. This sobering reminder of the wages...
Meanwhile, Don Giovanni tries to take a new conquest and seduces newlywed peasant Zerlina (Caitlin C. Vincent ’07/Jessica G. Peritz ’06) from her husband Masetto (John F. Errington ’05/Oussama Zahr...
Having already exhausted the first option, boobs were it. She quickly logged onto thefacebook.com to check out her options. Women seeking women are a rare but choice catch. The only question left: will she videotape her conquest and broadcast it to a national audience, hyping the final liplock months before it happens and then, finally, in the last five minutes of the crucial episode, pulling through with what turns out to be a really-not-that-satisfying finish...
With another quality win, as a conquest of Dartmouth would surely be, the Crimson would be all but a lock for a bid into the NCAA Frozen Eight in late March...