Word: lording
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...celebrating crowd was so huge that Nehru, the new Prime Minister, had to fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife Edwina, with whom Nehru was secretly enamored. But Mountbatten knew of another secret that would cause great grief...
...budget for a Hollywood movie, but astronomical for most Asian features. Then there was the issue of shooting in a country where no Western film crew had completed an entire movie since 1964, when Peter O'Toole braved cobras, heat rash and corrupt officials during the making of Lord Jim. Although many Asia hands advised Dillon to shoot in neighboring Thailand instead, he insisted that Cambodia, with its French-influenced architecture and postwar fragility, was a location that couldn't be substituted. "There are things you'd never worry about in other places?land-mine clearance, having roads rebuilt, getting...
...depending too much on myself,” O’Donnell said. “I wasn’t trusting in the Lord. I was relying on my own strength, and I know better than that. Once I let the Lord take over, that allowed me to fill my body with the spirit of the Lord. I was wrestling with God’s strength...
...didn't ask us for any money," recalls Ryan. "They just said they were going to depend on people like us to get them from place to place. We're Christians too, so we thought we'd give them a hand if they were really doing something for the Lord...
...Wooldridge, both editors at the Economist, take a Churchillian view: corporations are the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others. The book is an entertaining romp through the highs and lows of corporations since the first compagnia appeared in 12th century Italy. An 18th century British lord complained, "Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like." The authors see a new era of corporate self-restraint, but recent events show how little has changed. --By Richard Hornik