But in this race for the coffee-drinking market, Starbucks, which asserts that its global goal of 30, 000 outlets is "achievable, " is anindomitable adversary.
Her character leapt off the page: impetuous, pugnacious, fiercely intelligent and irreverent, with anindomitable sense of humour, moral passion and integrity that would never desert her throughout the ordeal that awaited her.