Word: cutthroat
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Still, the movie took a decade to happen. Norman, whose previous films include Cutthroat Island, got the idea in 1988 from one of his sons, who was studying Elizabethan drama, and eventually produced a script for Universal. In 1992 Stoppard--who wrote the movies Empire of the Sun, The Russia House and Brazil, among others--came in to do a rewrite. The film fell apart over casting and languished until Miramax bought the rights from Universal...
...make millions and then save the world, the very fact that the world is increasingly turning to rich men like Soros, Bill Gates and Ted Turner to solve its problems is troubling. The power to change our world's fate should not rest in the hands of a few cutthroat capitalists...
...institutions to serve such social goals as political freedom and social justice" (as he did in a January 1998 Atlantic Monthly article) the world recognizes him as becoming one of those institutions. Instead of a world government, or international rules of practice, men who have become blindingly wealthy using cutthroat practices in the global economy have become institutions of great power. These men are either a George Soros or an Osama bin Laden. Soros uses his wealth for what most consider common good. Bin Laden has used his millions for terrorist purposes...
...level of ego. Danny Glover is a really sweet man who makes you feel totally at ease, and Oprah is so reassuring and has such a firm commitment to goodness. This is a person who succeeded completely through hard work, and never stepped on anyone or stooped to cutthroat tactics on her way to the top. Working with her, I realized the sheer range and strength of this woman. She's one of the most inspiring people I've ever...
Enough people are loving their iMacs right now to pull Apple's earnings out of the red for the first time in three years -- and enough, at 68 cents a share for the third quarter, to soundly wallop Street estimates. But in the cutthroat computer industry, in which the future of a company rides on its market share, Steve Jobs' babe is far from being out of the woods. "If you shrink a company to the size of its existing niche, it's simple to turn a profit," says TIME tech correspondent Michael Krantz. "It's good that they...