Word: daunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ishaq Khan hinted he would not automatically bypass Bhutto: "I think a woman Prime Minister might be a good change." In the male-dominated Muslim society of Pakistan, it would be an astonishing one. That did not daunt Bhutto. She immediately set out to solicit coalition partners. By Thursday night she claimed, "We already have a simple majority in the parliament." But Nawaz Sharif is also scrambling to assemble a majority, and likewise predicts he will succeed...
Other entrepreneurs thrive on challenges that can daunt larger firms. Few industries have shrunk more in recent years than American shoe manufacturing, which has seen imports walk off with much of its business. Yet the Timberland shoe company (1983 sales: $60 million), based in the rural hamlet of Newmarket, N.H., has weathered the foreign onslaught and added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come...
...Exactly twenty years later I finish my book, Max Shuster is thoroughly dead, and the publishing house has become a division of Gulf and Western," Haviaras smiles. The loss of his friend did not daunt him, however, and "[Simon and Shuster] ended up publishing the book anyway," he says...
...which is enough to daunt any 22-year-old millionaire pioneer. Young has a right to be scared. Even if he were Staubach and Unitas put together, he might still have to be Namath too. -By Tom Callahan
Rock's quiet manner often intimidates strangers and can daunt even close friends. Says one associate: "I was scared to death of him for the first ten years I knew him." Nevertheless, Rock has a thoughtful paternal side, which he shows particularly to favored protégés. He includes them in attractive deals and cautions them against squandering their fortunes by selling their stock too early. In December 1982, he treated Apple Chairman Steven Jobs, 28, to his first opera, Tosca...