Word: tripped
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Down the street from Quiksilver, Woolcott says he is not interested in growing if it means sacrificing any portion of the life-style, which includes taking off whenever he wants on a surfing safari or snowboarding trip. "Getting bigger is totally secondary," he says. "I don't want to put pressure on what we're doing. I don't even think about getting Quiksilver big." Woolcott's office is festooned with Sex Pistols posters and Volcom's mission statement: YOUTH AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT...
Both men found their callings early. Clinton was elected a senator at Boys Nation at 16. On a Washington field trip that year, he shook hands with President Kennedy--an iconic moment captured in a photo. After Yale Law School and a Rhodes scholarship, Clinton, at 32, became Governor of Arkansas. The single-minded rise to political power is a timeless story, but Clinton's came with the distinctive trappings of his era: the scruffy beard and antiwar protests while at Oxford, the experimentation with pot, the civil rights movement sensibility and the feminist wife who kept her name...
...recalls how Pettigrew received a quick lesson in business by researching one of their more difficult properties during a trip to a city engineer's office with a notebook full of concerns...
...being investigated for 'gray area' violations such as staying at the ambassador's house when he was on a business trip," says Dowell. "There could be people -- particularly in the State Department, which has been under intense criticism for the apparent lack of direction in U.S. foreign policy -- with an interest in seeing that Holbrooke doesn't get that position. Because he may be too good...
Pastrana, 44, a Conservative who took office last summer, is doing what he can to keep the country intact. By any standard, his trip into the heart of FARC territory last week was courageous. "I did not become President of Colombia to preside over its dissolution," he recently told TIME...