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An article in the new Fast Company , for instance, suggests that Toyota's management was hesitant to Web-ify the company precisely because it was afraid that would lead to direct sales, which would alienate dealers (and break the law).
Conservatives know that they won't alienate their true constituency--big business--because conservatives don't control the White House and therefore have no foreign policy teeth.
Gore's problem, therefore, is not that he is a "beta" (vice presidents--even Lyndon Johnson--must be) or that he is reserved (so was Lincoln), but that hiring a Dick Morris hanger-on like Naomi Wolf and trying to hide it shows a "stunning lapse in intelligence," a daft inability to perceive what will mobilize and what will alienate the voters.
That's OK in the sex industry, but not so great in others, because it tends to alienate the loyal supporters who form the core of the business.
A related article speculates that Hong Kong is safe from excessive Chinese meddling: China doesn't want to alienate Taiwan or the international community, and Tung Chee-hwa is making sound, relatively liberal decisions.