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...Work less!" may seem like a strange motto for a company that's competing with Microsoft, where employees embrace the dramatic simplicity of "When I'm awake, I'm working." But plenty of others have tried to outwork Microsoft, and Gates has beaten them all. Barksdale's approach, at the very least, could someday lead to a kinder and gentler Valley culture. Whether Netscape's bottom line can hack that remains to be seen, but Bark believes his company deserves a little breathing room. "It's not a total win-lose game," he says. "I don't think anybody...
...agree. I've been underestimated over and over again, by political observers and political opponents, and here I am. A lot of people have fallen by the wayside. So no, he is not driven more. I will outwork him, outhustle him, outrun him, and outknowledge him. He has his strengths, but one of them isn't wanting to be President more than...
...Woody Hayes, life, like oldtime football, was three yards and a cloud of dust. "I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em," he frequently said, and he was right. But whatever his intellectual insecurities, Hayes was confident that he was receiving life's message loud and clear. Rectitude, he was certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between...
...once had his players switch jersey numbers. To "get the crowd going with us," he has charged onto the floor and deliberately drawn a technical foul. "I know some of them coaches are smarter," drawls Driesell, "and some are better lookin', but none of 'em is gonna outwork ole Lefty...
...that case, Kennedy must be given the edge. He is the consummate campaigner, willing and able to outtravel, outspend and outwork McCarthy. Yet there are the animosities that will not evaporate. Some border on the irrational, as suggested by the remark of a Chicago editor, who feels that Bobby has been "the guy off stage pulling the strings, the guy who chopped heads." There is the residual feeling in some quarters that the Kennedy millions "bought" the White House once and that they are being unlimbered in another attempt to do so. And there is the criticism, sometimes justified, that...