U.S. marketing operation, has the kind of pragmatism one might expect from a first-generation immigrant.

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Finbarr O'Neill, the Fountain Valley, California-based chief executive of Hyundai Motor's U.S. marketing operation, has the kind of pragmatism one might expect from a first-generation immigrant.

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Here, political pragmatism often goes by the board as every idea gets tested against philosophic first principles.

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De Gaulle's acceptance of Algerian independence was a belated pragmatism, forced on him by his failure to win over the Americans, first under Eisenhower and then under Kennedy.

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