Word: jacked
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...firm, to tell him how to reorganize the government. "I'm not kidding," he said, tactfully adding that it might be another management-consulting firm such as Bain (where Romney worked for years and where he got rich) or the Boston Consulting Group. Or he just might call on Jack Welch, who retired years back as CEO of General Electric but has yet to be replaced in the Lee Iacocca Chair as America's semiofficial Business...
...management consultantship. This is a belief that pragmatism and brainpower are superior to ideology in understanding the world, although this amounts to an ideology of its own. Romney went on and on about how much he loves "data." Give him a problem, give him the data, give him Jack Welch...
...poor at symbolizing ourselves. Many of us would like to snip the Union Jack off our flag, but no one can agree on a new design. Our official Olympic mascots and emblems are kitsch, climaxing last month in the Great Medal Screwup. It turned out that all the Olympic medals, the bronze and the silver as well as the gold, had been designed to feature not the Parthenon in Athens, not even the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, but the Colosseum in Rome, less noted for Olympic-style friendship than for gladiatorial butchery. What the hell, the officials...
...blocking shots, keeping them out to the outside, and eliminating their passes.”Through its first four games, though the Crimson committed a total of 24 penalties, the team has only given up one power-play goal, good for a .958 penalty-kill percentage.TWO-MINUTE MINORSSophomore defenseman Jack Christian added to his team-leading scoring total with his third goal of the season Friday against Rensselaer. Two of his scores have come in the form of empty-netters…On Saturday night, co-captain Mike Taylor, freshman defender Chris Huxley, and senior forward Tyler Magura each recorded...
...came on a circus play late in the third period. A holding penalty gave the Engineers a power play with just over two minutes left, affording them an opportunity to pull their goalie for a 6-on-4 advantage. But just eight seconds into the man advantage, junior defenseman Jack Christian took the puck and launched a 120-footer from his own blue line into an open net for his second empty-net goal of the season—and the team lead in goals. “He’s got that play down, the empty-netter...