You might also regard our list with some disdain--what, no American cars?
History is replete with examples of strategic miscalculations in which an over-reach - usually born of contemptuous disdain for a foe - led to disaster for the aggressor.
Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was campaigning for his first term, he made a virtue of his disdain for foreign-policy issues.
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Facebook's founders, like Google's, once expressed their disdain for profit-motivated sharing.
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Steve Jobs, who ran Apple as CEO during the launch of the first two iPads before dying of cancer in October, had previously expressed disdain for 7-inch tablets.
To the Dutchman's disdain the free-kick went to the home side but the abrasive gestures, which are becoming a Mourinho trademark after he put his finger to his lips in the Carling Cup win over Liverpool, were not finished.
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Without the music career he hoped would take off--Federline's debut album, Playing With Fire, opened to critical disdain and lackluster sales--it's his tabloid presence that continues to open doors for his celebrity.
Neiderauer, a former Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) partner and senior trading executive there, is said to have a disdain for the floor-based trading model.
His likely successor at NYSE Euronext (nyse: NYX - news - people ), Duncan Niederauer, is a fellow Goldman alum who has expressed disdain for floor brokers--another sign the ever-shrinking auction floor of the Big Board is giving way to NYSE's electronic systems.
Asked whether she would feel comfortable returning to a state where many Cuban-Americans expressed open disdain for her handling of the return of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, Reno recounted a favorable incident Tuesday at Miami International Airport.
And incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is showing her true colors - and her disdain for the moderate and conservative Democrats whose victory gave her the chamber's gavel - by favoring the darling of the anti-war left, Jack Murtha, over Stenny Hoyer for Majority Leader, and the radical, anti-military and once-impeached judge Alcee Hastings over Jane Harman for chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
But in the 1964 interview recorded by the North Port Public Library, Jack Kerouac voiced disdain for the so-called beatniks.
Economists have usually explained poor people's counter-intuitive disdain for something that might make them better off by invoking income mobility.
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Neiderauer, a former Goldman Sachs partner and senior trading executive there, is said to have a disdain for the floor-based trading model.
The word's English etymology speaks volumes about Anglo-Saxon disdain for organs.
Grachev's disdain for Secretary Perry -- and the American administration he represents -- could only have been further intensified by the Bakeresque concessions proferred in the face of such a wholesale rebuff.
Much has been written about his disdain for earthly comforts -- he prefers the bus to a chauffeur-driven limousine and cooked his own meals until now -- but his activism on behalf of the poor has been just as much a hallmark of his life.
Even Thais who disdain both the rival colour-coded camps smell something fishy here.
For years, European politicians have eyed Japan's economic mess with a lofty disdain a basket-case economy for which successive Japanese governments were clearly to blame.
Einstein, however, was not truly a relativist, even though that is how he was interpreted by many, including some whose disdain was tinged by anti-Semitism.
The voters were angered by fear-mongering and disdain, as politicians interleaved warnings of economic collapse or even war with references to no voters as uninformed or ignorant.
Hocking also has a level headed understanding of the uniqueness of her situation, and a healthy disdain for her new media-anointed role as the woman who is going to single-handedly crush traditional publishing back into tree pulp.
If you are merely -- by happenstance -- sharing your disdain for the artist behind what is frighteningly deemed "the song of the summer" (can you tell that we share your derision?) at the same instance that your pal is drooling all over it, by all means, go ahead and let loose.
It is no wonder Boko Haram has treated the offer of amnesty by the Jonathan-led government with disdain.
And the disdain with which he treated leg-spinner Anil Kumble evoked those heady days when he was ranked the best batsman in the world.
His disdain for pessimistic, Chicken Little-like punditry--beloved by so much of the mainstream media--was in synch with the basic optimism of most Americans.
Sarcasm and disdain may work in a 500-word opinion piece in a newspaper but they become tedious over 500 pages of a book.
But what many outside China saw during the Olympics was a clampdown on dissent and a disdain even for the spontaneous street-party exuberance of previous games.
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Perkins and Keyworth, who saw Sarbanes-Oxley as adding an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy, were dismissive of the requirements, and Keyworth had often expressed to Fiorina his disdain for Dunn and her audit-committee work.
It is hard to imagine a more different agenda than that of Mr. Obama - whose ideologically driven antipathy to such defenses seems about as deep-seated as his disdain for those in Congress who have sought to protect Americans against ballistic missile attack.
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