The conservative values which were once reasonable, harmonious complements to their liberal counterparts in this democratic republic have been genetically modified by radically neurotic strains of corporate manifest destiny, John Birch paranoia and radical religious delusion.
Blizzard, who are part of the same corporate family as Destiny's publisher's Activision, went to Bellevue to share their own tale of launching a commercially successful but critically shaky game.
Most of today's young stars, with little or no collegiate training, dribble into a stretched-thin league that long ago stopped catering to working-family fans and hitched its destiny to corporate masters and the beneficiaries of the company largess.
While ensuring the competence, control, and the balance of power among groups with the potential for rivalry, managerial leadership unfortunately does not necessarily ensure imagination, creativity, or ethical behavior in guiding the destinies of corporate enterprises.
Wedged in a wind-swept bowl hugged by three rugged mountain ranges, Trona is the classic company town, its destiny written by corporate outsiders who come to tap the bounty hidden beneath the chalky crust of Searles Dry Lake.
Apart from a stint as a columnist in Seventeen magazine, she did not make forecasts, or cast up horoscopes, for ordinary people; only for corporate figures, celebrities and those who guided the destinies of nations.
"I think he absolutely has mismanaged the destiny of the firm," said Stanley Sapery, a corporate first vice president at Drexel.
Unlike them, Mr. Wright does not control his own destiny — he is an executive employee of General Electric, NBC's corporate parent.
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies.
