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...Koogle of Yahoo, Steve Case of America Online and Tom Jermoluk from @Home, has emerged to do exactly that, through aggressive acquisition strategies, massive infrastructure spending and expansion at a clip that would make old-line companies get motion sickness. These young chieftains have shown a true disdain for the next quarter's results. In fact, Amazon's Bezos went so far as to urge those concerned with short-term performance to sell his stock, something no one else has ever done in the 20 years I have been trading...
Perhaps the most important institutional change brought on by takeover was a change in the administration's attitude. The University's response to the 1969 takeover put into sharp relief its disdain for students: Nathan M.Pusey '28, president of Harvard at the time, was willing to send local police into University Hall to drive his own students from the building...
Those of you familiar with the movie "Reservoir Dogs" (which should be everyone since you all have that stupid poster with the triangular standoff on your walls) will remember the oft-cited restaurant scene in which Mr. Pink reveals his disdain for tipping. He hates it. I too have a restaurant peeve: ice in the drinks...
Much like a soap-opera character, Monica Lewinsky is someone we all love to hate [NATION, March 15]. When I read your article, however, my disdain was tempered by an unexpected admiration. She has lived out a fear most of us only dream about--suddenly finding oneself naked in public. What struck me was how Monica was able to defend herself without seeming defensive. This ability allowed her to appear poised, intelligent and charming--so much so that many people commented they could finally understand what the President saw in her. While I do not admire Monica for her self...
...genetic engineering, would the Promethean power unleashed that day become vivid. But from the beginning, the Watson and Crick story had traces of hubris. As told in Watson's classic memoir, The Double Helix, it was a tale of boundless ambition, impatience with authority and disdain, if not contempt, for received opinion. ("A goodly number of scientists," Watson explained, "are not only narrow-minded and dull but also just stupid.") Yet the Watson and Crick story is also one of sublime harmony, an example, as a colleague put it, of "that marvelous resonance between two minds--that high state...