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...acquired Allied for $3.6 billion in 1986. He stunned U.S. retailers two years later by besting the powerful R.H. Macy & Co. in a $6.6 billion battle for Federated. Recalls Jon Levy, chairman of Gillian Group, a leading dress manufacturer: "After a while, it became a contest of wills and ego. Campeau came to feel that it was a game and he had to win the prize." But the price of victory was a debt load that included $2.25 billion of junk bonds that pay as much as 17.75% interest...
...which he can avert if he changes his name and declares himself not to be the author of his works. Although he ultimately says no, he wavers for a moment, and that is enough to satisfy the state. In Temptation, Havel retells the Faust myth in terms of the ego-driven distortions of truth committed by his compatriots. In the essay The Power of the Powerless, he lambastes an archetypal grocer who places a poster saying WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE in his shopwindow to prove himself orthodox and ensure his comfort. Dissecting the web of hypocrisies and self-deceptions...
Theory four: I Am Man, Hear me Roar. A combination of ego and ignorance, Quayle is showing an "I don't give a damn" quality. He has been consistently badgered by the press, mocked by Democrats, and ignored by Republicans...
After withstanding so much abuse, he performs without giving a damn. All we are seeing is an overextended ego a la Leona Helmsly...
...Well, I wouldn't be human if I didn't confess to a certain amount of ego gratification. When I stood in front of the foreign policy establishment in the Soviet Union and was given a generally empathetic reception, I had a sense of, if you will, historical vindication. But I also had a sense of something much more important. There was a breakthrough taking place in the thinking of people who for 70 years were artificially divorced from the intellectual and philosophical currents of the Western world. They are now in the process of restoring some of those connections...