Word: alpha
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first expedition on the space station requests permission to take the radio call sign Alpha," he said. Both he and Krikalev had expressed favor for the name before launch, since the first letter of the Greek alphabet was neither Russian nor American. Goldin was taken aback, and somewhere off microphone huddled with others before coming back...
...humiliating for the former cigar-store Indian. Gore told the convention, "I stand here as my own man." He turned himself into an explosion of manic animation--pinwheeling and high-fiving across the American landscape, caring and sharing like nobody's business, the alpha male of millennial dream, his face a kaleidoscope of exuberance. And it hasn't worked. After all that profligate expenditure of self, he remains locked in a too-close-to-call race against a nice enough fellow from Texas and Yale whose mind, even in the midst of a presidential debate, seems to behave like...
...First of all, that Beta-male Al Gore was just another minor aberration. The vice president seems to have revived the Jim Lehrer?jumping, time-hogging, smarty-pants Alpha-hood that he applied to Wooden Al at the Los Angeles convention: Here's what I want to do - exactlywhat I want to do. Is it so bad that I'm positively chewing my leg off to get a chance...
...their own race without treading on the beloved Carnahan's ghost. There will be extreme pressure for Bush to keep his smirking ebullience (which made a stealth appearance in the forgotten second half of Round Two) in check, and for Gore to find a way to be both Alpha and dignified, a trick he hasn't yet mastered...
...great programmer apart from mediocre ones is their focus," says Ali Aydar, a friend from Massachusetts who now works as a Unix programmer in Napster's Redwood City, Calif., offices. "Shawn is able to concentrate, and collaborate and appropriate if necessary. He's also able to handle criticism. Most alpha-geeks can't take criticism. They'll get into arguments. Shawn actually listens and takes the best part of what...