They were people like Gordon, upper class men with stiff, and usually moustachioed, upper lips.
But people like Gordon Murray and his vision for a revolutionary new car just might do.
Blake-Plock, looking something like Gordon Freeman with a buzzcut, has a staggering amount of charisma.
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Twenty-five years ago, early adopters like Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris were lugging around phones the size of footballs.
Young, like Gordon, left EA in 2008, where he worked for 11 years and managed projects under the EA Los Angeles and EA Blueprint divisions.
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In those days hero was a simple label, the adventure magazines of schoolboys would have resounded with tales of men like Gordon, Livingstone, and Scott.
He also said it was not true to suggest Hazel Blears, who quit as communities secretary on the eve of the local elections, did not like Gordon Brown's style of leadership.
And I think if that ever did come up for a vote, I think you'd find that a number of Republicans - you already have Republicans being very dissident toward the president's policy, people like Gordon Smith in Oregon, Norm Coleman in Minnesota.
Among the ranks of the Senate Republican dissenters are moderates like Olympia Snowe of Maine, or members up for re-election in 2008 who live in parts of the country where Democrats made gains in the mid-term elections, like Gordon Smith of Oregon or John Sununu of New Hampshire.
In short, Buchanan, along with coauthors like Gordon Tullock, Geoffrey Brennan, Richard Wagner, and others, helped develop a branch of inquiry that helps us understand politics and markets by considering people as they actually are rather than as we can imagine them to be in our visions of a perfect world.
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Today, that statement sounds like a Gordon Gecko inspired desire for material goods.
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Yet Bush's resoluteness aside, there are people like Robert Gordon, president of investment firm Twenty-First Securities, musing that when it comes to taxes, the news from now on is likely to be unpleasant.
Tax strategists like Robert Gordon of Twenty-First Securities in New York see this year as a lucky reprieve for those who didn't get around to planning for higher taxes earlier, especially on investments with long-term gains and stock options.
However, like Thomas Gordon and George Finlay, who had themselves taken part in the war and from whose sympathetic, exasperated and still highly readable histories Mr Brewer frequently quotes, he presents such episodes as regrettable aberrations in a national liberation struggle.
Like Peter Robinson and Gordon Brown he had been a number two for some time and, like them, it was always believed he would eventually get the top job.
But it's no good Gordon Brown talking like a Tory, when he doesn't believe in the vision that goes with it.
Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Miss Gordon was born in the wide open spaces of the northern mid-west.
Noyce and Gordon Moore and people like Jobs and Gates made a fortune out of the stuff that he started.
And this week, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that like his predecessor Tony Blair, he will not rule out the option of using military force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Journalists who have dealt with Mr McBride and other Gordon Brown advisers, like former spin-doctor Charlie Whelan, say the aborted smear strategy bore the hallmarks of the way Mr Brown's team has dealt with his enemies in the past.
True in a sense: but these changes just made Paris more like London, which had the frightening Gordon Riots in 1780, but no revolution.
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They, I mean I don't want to get in to oil economics, but the idea that one can sort of turn the tap on and off like this, in the quantities that Gordon Brown suggests, I think is unrealistic.
Eric Joyce - who quit as an aide to former Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth last year in a row over strategy in Afghanistan - is also standing, as is Caroline Flint, who resigned as Europe minister last year and accused Gordon Brown of treating women like "window dressing".
"Gordon Brown and David Cameron are like two dogs fighting over the wrong bone, " he said.
Anne Mitchell, for example, pulled her son Gordon out because she did not like the way his school dealt with his cerebral palsy.
But what does Gordon Brown's economy look like at ground level?
There is sailing, jet-boating, sandboarding and helicopter flights, or more gentle outdoor pleasures like chasing the reflections on a mirror-calm Gordon River cruise, riding through the rainforests on a restored heritage railway or being driven to the heart of it all in a comfortable 4x4.
There were some athletes in attendance at E3, including NBA players like Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant, and Eric Gordon, UFC fighter Chuck Liddell and WWE superstars past (Hulk Hogan) and present (The Miz, Kelly Kelly).
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The young actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who looks a little like Keanu Reeves, only smarter, is Chris Pratt, a Midwestern high-school jock and rich kid who hurt his head in a car accident (it was his fault) and now suffers from short-term-memory loss.
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