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Another common nickname, bestowed by a satirical paper called Frank , is The Glock und Spiel , probably a sly dig at the Globe's conservative leanings.
people such as Charles A. Johnson, Vice President for Development of the Lilly Endowment, Hank Rosso, Founding Director of The Fund Raising School, Patricia Lewis, President of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, and Milt Murray, an extraordinary fund raiser upon whom both The Center and NSFRE have bestowed their highest awards.
Then they named the neighboring country which is actually covered with ice--over 10,000 feet deep in places-- Greenland . It might have been Eric the Red who bestowed the verdant name “Greenland” upon the usually snow-and-ice covered country.
Hanks and Hodges and de Felice say that most of these nicknames could also be bestowed ironically.
Stross could have written a fabulous book about how Microsoft's meritocracy produced a perfect monopoly, out of sheer grit and the love bestowed upon its team of managers by America's mutual funds (their fondness for Microsoft stock yielded a price that allowed the company, with its handsome stock-option compensation program, to hold on to its best, most talented players).