Word: underdog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poor Microsoft, getting pushed around by that big ol' bully, the American government. I appreciated the "everybody-loves-an-underdog" sentiment of senior David M. Weld's "Booing Bill Gates" commentary (Nov. 18), but he is sadly misled in his Panglossian views on Microsoft's "evil empire...
...philosophy may be just the ticket. And for Alwaleed, already a record producer in the Middle East, the partnership could be an inexpensive shortcut to big-time entertainment deals. "With Michael's negative image in America, people concluded 'He's through,'" says an Alwaleed adviser. "The prince likes an underdog. He moves in when it appears a business has no chance. It was easier to get involved with Michael Jackson because he was down...
...Everything will have to go right to be honest," Siedlecki says. "We're the underdog and we know it, but it's important for us to believe...
Washington influence peddling is that rare arena in which Gates is a legitimate underdog. Sun, Oracle and Netscape--the ABM (Anybody But Microsoft) coalition's holy trinity--have emerged as a potent force with an unlikely assortment of top-drawer allies, from Nader on the left to the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Jeff Eisenach on the free-market right. Senate majority leader Trent Lott is an old college buddy of Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cooled on Microsoft after a private dinner in 1995 during which he was rebuffed by the notoriously apolitical Gates...
This sort of behavior seems strangely at odds with the ideal of the American dream, that perennial occupant of this country's collective unconscious which causes us to love the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger, class of 1852, sort of underdog who beats the odds and from poor and humble beginnings acquires vast wealth. If we love successful underdogs as they approach fame and fortune, why do we not continue to love them as they attain ever-higher pinnacles of achievement, whether it be by doubling and redoubling their billions or by winning an increasingly ridiculous number of consecutive championships...