Word: vendettas
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...really wanted to beat Princeton, because the coach and I don't get along too well," Whitton said. "It's kind of a little personal vendetta...
...book author, I measure Bezos' success not by how many books Amazon sells for me but by how I am treated. When my recent book was posted, a reader with what seemed like a personal vendetta wrote 13 similar hate-filled reviews and posted them on Amazon.com and two other large online book stores. Three Amazon employees over a four-week period treated me as if I had a legitimate concern, while the other online sites insinuated I was just a thin-skinned author who couldn't take any criticism. The Amazon people took the time to actually read...
...thing he had to fear was fear itself. Billionaire financier Edmond J. Safra died because he was poisoned by the same conspiracy theories that consumed the media in the days following his death. The most commonly discussed scenario in Safra's fiery death had the Russian mob settling a vendetta against the banker for blowing the whistle on money laundering schemes. It turns out this whodunit had a more ordinary culprit: the nurse...
...seems that Simpson has a personal vendetta against Guerrero. According to a broadcast of Simpson's 911 call, he told the operator, "I'm trying to get a girl to go to rehab. She's been doing drugs for two days with Pedro Guerrero, who just got arrested for cocaine, and I'm trying to get her to leave her house and go into rehab right now." Simpson's preoccupation with assisting the ill woman is almost completely overshadowed by the time spent giving incriminating details about Guerero...
...need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role in derailing his father, and suggested that Ross Perot carried a "vendetta" against his family. In McCain's story his father comes across as a source of humility and as inspiration for public service. Bush, on the other hand, seems to have inherited his sense of entitlement from his father, and after the President's defeat, an ongoing personal cause...