Word: warriorism
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...trying to do are things that serve the best interests of Oracle, its shareholders and society at large, because that's what makes me happy." He preaches the virtues of simplicity and compatibility--at least in terms of using technology--yet he conducts his business like a Ninja warrior. "In every private conversation I've had with Larry over the past 15 or 20 years," says an industry figure, "the metaphors when he's speaking of competitors are always violent. He'll say, 'This is the quarter we put a knife in their chest,' or, 'The life will be choked...
...provided him with the fodder for several books on Israeli military history. Despite this, Nelan notes that Herzog's deep involvement in Israeli's armed forces did not prevent him from seeing the possibility of a reconciliation in the Middle East. "People will remember him not only as a warrior, but as a man who always spoke up in favor of peace...
...Albert Underzo, document the adventures of a village of plucky Gauls in an ancient France almost completely dominated by the Romans. Asterix's adventures have appeared as countless films and cartoons in French television and theaters, been translated into dozens of languages worldwide (including Latin) and garnered the indomitable warrior his own theme park, just a little north of Paris. (To gauge the difference in the cultural influence of comics in France and in America, consider the fact that the best-selling book of all time in France is one of Asterix's comic albums...
...cloning debate, which raged heatedly for the full hour, involved hypothetical issues such as the possible cloning of "warrior races" and "pacific races," as well as the potential moral and social implications of cloning humans and animals...
...ignored by their party's liberal leaders, and with Newt Gingrich's angry band of G.O.P. radicals, who paid their party's elders as much deference as would Hell's Angels swaggering into a bar full of Shriners. Lott won the trust of both sides and remained the Happy Warrior: backslapping and optimistic, the bass of the Capitol's barbershop quartet...