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It's a bit of a lightning-rod word, one that can touch a nerve with players who are weary of having their mental or physical toughness called into question, but it's hard to argue with Crawford's word choice.
Such rhetorical symbols touch a nerve among postmodernists that makes them far more significant than cases of suffering and human misery.
The timing of the ad is good, it uses humor well and should touch a nerve with risk managers.
 
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