But Mr. Corzine seemed to still be smarting from the primary.
You'd think that the financial services industry would still be smarting from the kicking it has received over PPI, endowment and pension-switch mis-selling.
(The Shorty Awards) Bugatti may (or may not) still be smarting from the recent decision of Guinness World Records to remove the Veyron Super Sport from its world's-fastest-production-car pedestal, but the setback seems to be small potatoes for Bugatti.
The result means that as he prepares for an enthusiastic welcome in Britain this week – including an unprecedented sell-out event at Wembley Stadium on Friday – Mr Modi will be smarting from the defeat on home soil, which comes as his administration also faces mounting accusations of fomenting intolerance.
The studio ought to be smarting from the failure of weak sequels such as Cars 2 and Monsters University to win traction with critics, and indeed Morris seems keen to point out during the Disney Latino interview that another film is not simply being made to exploit the series for financial gain.
Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie may still be smarting from the fact that Apple passed it in smartphone market share last quarter.
Launched in Japan in 1994, the Playstation was smart from the start: its spectacular 3-D games, backed by techno soundtracks, were unlike anything that had been seen before, even on PCs.Since the launch of the Playstation, the games industry has become the fastest-growing segment of the entertainment industry.
Which brings up what has always seemed (at least to me) to be one of the startup's biggest value props: The founders were smart, from the get-go to establish the business on a B2B model.
But people who know they're smart from the day they're born don't really have that, and as a result develop a lot of character habits that are distractive and not necessarily complementary".
