Throughout his life and to this day, Britten's reputation has risen and fallen for reasons that have at least as much to do with his complex personality.
Voltaire, he insists, was a milquetoast careerist, too concerned with his own reputation and his comfortable life to say anything truly unsettling.
But it was his character and his lifestyle that was to make his reputation, and it was the details of his colorful life which gave his obituary writers so much material to work with.
She will spend the rest of her life facing down rumors of her guilt and a tarnished reputation.
When you combine that kind of uncertainty with large amounts of invested capital, your personal reputation, and months or years of your life, it can be uncomfortable to say the least.
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And this was coming from the institution somewhat sardonically called, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, The World's Greatest University, a place that for centuries relied on its reputation for academic excellence, not its life-comforts and other amenities, to attract the best and the brightest.
Kirk, a widely known leader in the life sciences industry whose reputation as a founder of several successful biotech companies and savvy deal maker is almost unmatched.
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And the parliament could help dispel its reputation for an easy life in the comfort zone by agreeing to sit into the summer to confirm a new commission before September.
But now, in the later innings of his life, he must rise to an unseemly challenge: to salvage his reputation and his fortune, Wilpon must prove that he was a dupe rather than a crook.
MetLife has built a strong reputation in the U.S. as a leading provider of life and health insurance.
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Chairman Dr. Phil Stone said that it was based on Richard's life and that a team of "Ricardians, " as people interested in rehabilitating his reputation are known, had been involved.
In an era when stakeholders value companies based on both the specifics and nuance of reputation, the addition of a bigger-than-life CEO reputation skews those expectations, as well as makes them unreasonable.
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The 65-year-old from Brazil has had his reputation bolstered since taking over as prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in 2011.
The labor union at Thai Airways International PCL, meanwhile, singled out "Battle of the Angels" for special criticism, saying it tarnishes the reputation of flight attendants and is a far cry from day-to-day life in the skies.
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