Word: craves
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...High stakes and chutzpah--that's the ticket. Yet beyond the brass, many successful dealmakers possess an enviable skill set--vision, confidence, perseverance, focus, even empathy. Such qualities are the backbone of lasting success in any field, and to the extent they can be learned, we should all crave input. In A Passion to Win (Simon & Schuster), by Sumner Redstone with Peter Knobler, we go to school alongside one of the best. Redstone, a Boston nobody, took over his father's fledgling movie-theater operation and built it into Viacom, a global entertainment powerhouse with brands including MTV, Nickelodeon, Blockbuster...
Rick Hanetho, a parks manager in Schomberg, Ill., started the National Amateur Dodgeball Association after noticing that local kids, given a choice, always picked the game. He says dodge ball is most loved by the geekier kids, who could never make the basketball team or cheerleader squad but still crave team sports. "It teaches incredible hand-eye coordination, quick decision making, concentration and agility," he says. "And it's just a game. This criticism is absurd, just crazy...
...think about it, anybody who wants to be famous has to be fundamentally messed up. To crave attention, adulation, adoration from the whole wide world means that you aren’t content being happy in your own little corner of the world; a white picket fence, SUV and IKEA furniture in a suburban loft just don’t cut it unless your presence is known, unless you’re a star. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Life wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining if we didn’t have...
...Media: Winners (it's the ratings, stupid A news saga always draws audiences, even when it refuses to behave like the sort of ultimatum-driven geopolitical showdown producers crave. Like the legislators, the media displayed uncharacteristic patience in refraining from second-guessing the White House when the chips were down...
...pilot saying anything?" I ask Dr. Hsia. I crave reassurance. The pilot must be fighting to stay aloft, I think. Maybe he's drunk...