Word: iconoclastic
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Ironically, all this came about because two companies just...needed each other. Schrempp, the tough-talking 54-year-old iconoclast who became Daimler-Benz chairman in 1995, had already slashed the company's divisions from 35 to 25--taking tens of thousands of jobs along the way. It was an outrageous move in a country where labor rules. Schrempp wanted a new empire that would no longer depend on luxury cars, which were becoming prohibitively expensive to produce...
...other end of gender spectrum, she stands out as one of the few powerful woman in the conservative Regan administration when she served as Secretary of Labor. Indeed, she has a talent for being an iconoclast while at the same time fully associating herself with the conservative mores of society, a talent which along with her drive allowed her a level of professional success unmatched by almost any of her contemporaries...
...insights about the past 10 decades. It is debatable whether a 12-hour examination of modern world history actually requires an entire 60 min. on Elvis. It is iffier still whether anyone watching the segment will benefit from a dour-looking David Halberstam explaining that "the King" was an iconoclast and a "forerunner to youth culture." And while we're on the tricky subject of inclusions and omissions, how did the producers justify an hour on the Iranian hostage crisis and not, say, on the creation of Israel...
...occasional squalls of controversy. Therewas dissension from some professors who didn'tlike its secrecy and exclusiveness, as well asbacklash from students showing concern about theinfluence "Bones" was having over Yale financesand the favoritism shown to "Bonesmen." The essayexplains: In October of 1873, Volume 1, Number 1,of The Iconoclast was published in New Haven. Itwas only published once and was one of very fewopenly published articles on the Order of Skulland Bones...
...From The Iconoclast...