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Were he alive today, perhaps he’d add, “Nobody’s interested in baseball anymore. All the players are spoiled multimillionaires.”

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The magazine painted Johnson, widely known by her nickname Libet, as another spoiled American heiress with too much money and not enough purpose.

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In other words, a few bad apples among entrepreneurs haven’t spoiled the bunch—and some of them have planted the seeds for growth.

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Where basic training stories like this usually involve a cocky or spoiled character learning a lesson about humbleness and teamwork, Cam is coming from a place of insecurity and fear.

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He threw himself into the spoils of band life, partying and drinking to excess in an attempt to prove that nothing had really changed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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