Word: opportunist
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Ignatieff’s entrance into politics has been marked by controversy. He has faced harsh accusations of using disparaging ethnic slurs against Ukrainians in his published work and of being an opportunist...
...German President Richard von Weizsäcker recently moved up an official visit to Austria so he could be received by Kirchschläger rather than risk having Waldheim as his host. U.N. officials who served under him have reportedly said that the former Secretary-General was regarded as a blatant opportunist rather than a dedicated diplomat. That is hardly the image Waldheim tried to project at the beginning of the campaign, when he was portrayed as "A Man the World Trusts." In recent weeks, however, his campaign has adopted a more defiant slogan: "We Austrians Will Vote for Whom We Want...
...strong support for Chen's claim for asylum; ordinary people can readily identify a (crazy) brave act and seem grateful for Chen's heads-up based on his allegations of an army of Chinese informants operating in their country. Ambassador Fu Ying offers the idea that Chen is an opportunist who has chosen to remain in Australia for lifestyle reasons. It's more plausible, however, to see Chen as someone taking an enormous personal risk, acting out of conscience and rejecting life and work under an authoritarian state. Whatever his motives, Chen has given one regime a slap...
...well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th-century leader." And that's one of the more positive things they have to say about the man who is still widely revered as the founder of modern China. To Chang and Halliday, Mao was a scheming opportunist who butchered his way to the top, then squandered the lives and wealth of his people in a bungled quest for global influence...
Some call Karmazin an opportunist--or, more unkindly, a traitor to the old radio business--but nobody ever called him stupid. His strategy of seeding the Sirius lineup with high-priced stars makes sense if it's going to challenge XM, the market leader. XM's chipsets and audio technology, developed in-house, are a generation ahead of Sirius' hardware. Last fall, XM was first to market an iPod-like portable-radio device. The company in 2004 began serving up traffic data in major urban markets, fed directly to a car's navigation system, a feature that Sirius has announced...