The leadership here kind of gave them this rah rah pep talk and more pictures were being taken.

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She was rah-rah for Web 1.0 from the vantage point of the white shoe I-banker who was going to take you public.

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Harbaugh doesn't necessarily preach directly from the book, since he rarely gives 'rah rah' speeches or anything beyond a few words of inspiration.

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The screenwriter, Robert Towne, seems to be trying to underplay the rah-rah elements of the material to give competition some point other than pure ego gratification.

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Activist investor Keith Meister stepped in Thursday to shake up store brands food company Ralcorp ( RAH), and the market reacted with a smattering of polite applause.

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But more worrisome is the possibility Ryan's rah-rah actually worked for a while, convincing his players they were better than they were, and briefly pushed a mediocre team into an almost-contender.

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Organized sports are an attempt, through regimentation (uniforms and trophies) and rhetoric (rah-rah boosterism and coach talk), to give an inherently pointless activity some kind of point, to inject a purpose into play.

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These rah-rah sessions have drawn the scrutiny of the National Association of Securities Dealers, which has decided to institute disciplinary action against Leo Wells for violating rules on gift-giving by paying for reps' travel to the conferences.

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