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...work with Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Time Warner and Comcast. [Younger] consumers are very driven by the media functionality that will be delivered to those devices. With Apple, we worked hard to figure out how to integrate more closely into their technology. We have looked at partnering with them in other ways too, and we have a good relationship. So there are opportunities there...
Assuming you've got drive, dreams and skill, is all ambition equal? Is the overworked lawyer on the partner track any more ambitious than the overworked parent on the mommy track? Is the successful musician to whom melody comes naturally more driven than the unsuccessful one who sweats out every note? We may listen to Mozart, but should we applaud Salieri...
...just to keep the electricity on and the phone bill paid, ambition is often a luxury. For the rich, it's often unnecessary. It's members of the upper middle class, reasonably safe economically but not so safe that a bad break couldn't spell catastrophe, who are most driven to improve their lot. "It's called status anxiety," says anthropologist Lowe, "and whether you're born to be concerned about it or not, you do develop...
...local discontent over recent property tax increases lies at the heart of his appeal to Cambridge voters. Gordon argues that higher taxes have driven working-class and middle-class residents out of Cambridge, and says the current council is not working to ease the burden on homeowners...
...with an idea, it would have to be pretty lousy for me to say ‘no,’” Wright says.Indeed, the idea that St. Martin’s pitched to Wright was anything but lousy. The nation’s oldest university had driven some of its own students to suicide—and then pulled off a nearly successful cover-up.St. Martin’s is a publishing house with strong Harvard ties—it prints the student-run travel guide “Let’s Go” as well...