Even Cesar Chavez, the famed Californian farm workers' leader, never held off 80 gunslingers single-handed.

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We may have to resign ourselves to underperforming the young gunslingers for a while longer.

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Its gunslingers, though, agreed only to put their weapons out of reach, not to hand them over.

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We wear our cellular phones on our hips like gunslingers, and whip out our Palm Pilots as if they were police badges.

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But what made Wall Street different was they were gunslingers who could speculate and do what they wanted pretty much on their own.

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In a world of bureaucratic money managers with mediocre performance, investors want to believe in the myth of maverick gunslingers who outsmart the market.

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Salesmen are the gunslingers of business, and hired guns not only command top dollar but the unremitting range wars of business ensure a constant demand.

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Icelandic banks were run by gunslingers who leveraged themselves outrageously.

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In public, Miyamoto often strikes a lighthearted crouching pose, a proto-Wii stance that seems to owe a little to the gunslingers of the first video game he ever played, Western Gun, and a little to Yosemite Sam.

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