Government ministers, union leaders and people running big airports can look after themselves even if they may be taken aback by Mr O'Leary's typically four-letter-word abuse.
The problem is that the word compromise, once a ten-letter word, has become a four-letter word among many of the more extreme Republicans who have entered the House of Representatives and the Senate over the past few elections.
"Pivot to me is not a four-letter word, " says Tony Conrad, a partner in the early-stage venture capital firm True Ventures.
That may be a four-letter word, but the two initiatives it encapsulates can lay the foundation for IT advancement among the have-nots.
President Obama and his minions seem to think that freedom is a four-letter word.
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"The laugh is just as strong as if I put in the four-letter word, " Mr. Cosby says.
And Sandahl says any new development would create more sprawl, which is a four-letter word to state planners.
At a time when "risk" is the dirtiest four-letter word on Wall Street, such skills have made RiskMetrics a hot commodity.
Mr. WYSS: With the rising foreclosures and delinquencies in the subprime market, they got reminded that risk is still a four-letter word.
In one instance, Cringely asked whether there's a hidden meaning when Jobs uses a nasty four-letter word to describe his employees' subpar work.
In his words before the council, Emanuel repeatedly, emphatically distinguished the Trust from the parking meter deal, a four-letter word in this town.
"The Maloofs are a four-letter word in Sacramento, " said Carmichael Dave, a sports radio commentator who is driving an RV to NBA cities across the country to campaign for his city's cause.
As I was saying, the reason I feel comfortable using that four-letter word, love, is because the two women are doing a Valentine's Day show at Stage 72 on the Upper West Side that evening.
"As any golfer who has watched his partner shank a short approach knows, it would be absurd to accept the suggestion that the resultant four-letter word uttered on the golf course describes sex or excrement and is therefore indecent, " he wrote.
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We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice).
But we are no closer to discovering whether the accused is guilty or innocent of the central charge - using a four letter word to an officer of the law.
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