Word: opportunistic
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...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...
...show in 2003. The other networks are circling: ABC's Primetime Live will explore claims of behind-the-scenes misbehavior at Idol, and Fox honchos are worried that ABC may have incriminating video of the couple. Abdul's rep issued a statement last week calling Clark "a liar and opportunist" trying "to generate interest in a book deal." Liar? Opportunist? Someone tell that man he's on the wrong reality show...
...pain of another lost election begins to subside, Democrats have begun to do what we do best: Monday morning quarterbacking. Everybody has their own theory about what went wrong. Liberals note that Bush successfully painted Kerry as a political opportunist and flip-flopper—a task that was made easier by the candidate’s inability to stand firm on the war in Iraq—while conservatives point to statistics showing that rural voters turned out in droves to vote against a candidate they saw as out of touch with their “moral values...
Wolfe's previous novel, A Man in Full, published in 1998, took him 11 long years to finish, and when he was finally through, he wasted no time looking around for fresh territory. He likes to portray himself as a literary opportunist: in his 1989 manifesto "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," he scolded American novelists for writing minimalist, self-conscious little books when there's so much rich, strange, documentary material out there. "They don't want to see the world," he has said, "they want to suck their thumbs." After A Man in Full, it occurred to Wolfe...