Chrysler likes to pride itself on its buccaneering approach, where speed and ingenuity are prized.

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Among them: the fact that the Singapore government has long been a formidable campaigner for good corporate governance, while Ong has been something of a buccaneering tycoon.

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Moreover, it's no longer a lonely planet out there: Destinations that once earned you a merit badge in buccaneering now offer levels of luxury that were unimaginable 20 years ago.

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Back in the buccaneering 1970s, cable systems would twist the arms of local governments with whom they were negotiating rates by cutting all programming, and screening instead the officials' names and addresses.

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