After General Electric purchased NBC, in 1986, the company's C.E.O. at the time, Jack Welch, relied on Brokaw to serve as a bridge to and from a news division that he considered entitled and wasteful.
Banks continue to slap on fees for what most considered entitled services, like making ATM withdrawals or using a debit card, and airlines are now notorious for charging fees on everything from carry-on luggage to snacks.
We millennials are considered entitled and lazy people who think we should just graduate and have every great opportunity at our fingertips with no hard work, and who want to depend on their parents to avoid responsibility.
And Hitchens's unhinged affirmation that, since that date, young people have considered themselves entitled to everything they want without any effort or study is not going to make me change my mind.
But Clooney might have considered herself entitled to a lifetime achievement award for sheer survival as much as for musical success.
Then, each single citizen considered themselves entitled to have access to any merchandise or service no matter how far they were located.
Harrison's early technical expertise, long association with Australian military aviation as a founder member of the AFC and the RAAF, and "more assertive" personality tended to overshadow the contributions of Henry Petre, whom historian Douglas Gillison considered "equally entitled" to such an accolade.
But the decisive similarity is a level of megalomania unusual even in people who consider themselves entitled to supreme power.
It considers itself entitled to a thoroughly established conductor, if not an elder statesman with a household name.
Newcomers hear that north-west Denver is the hip place to live, but they aren't making an effort to be sensitive to where they're moving: they consider themselves entitled to be there.
