type-a

Through its own recruiting and through the acquisition of hot startups, Google hires only the best -- lots and lots of "type-a" achievement-focused people.

Nicholas Carlson: The Google Brain Drain Goes On 2009

We have found that guys, especially type-a, tech guys minds:

apophenia » Blog Archive » Web2.0 Expo Talk: Streams of Content, Limited Attention 2009

In most social situations where a type-a guy is stressed the hostile/aggressive behavior take over.

apophenia » Blog Archive » Web2.0 Expo Talk: Streams of Content, Limited Attention 2009

But this is sort of an interesting study, because it really gives some key components of type-a behavior for people to sort of focus in on.

CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2003 2003

What exactly about type-a behavior causes the problems with hypertension?

CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2003 2003

We're talking about type-a behavior here to some extent and the lore about this and its relationship to hypertension.

CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2003 2003

I came here because I found it a gentler, kinder place, less type-a and more accepting.

Letters to the editor: Sept. 1996 2000

I came here because I found it a gentler, kinder place, less type-a and more accepting.

Letters to the editor: Sept. 1996 2000

In less than half an hour Palermo and his men had loaded aboard the truck-chosen because it was a covered-van type-a staggering variety of weaponry, ranging from bazookas to machine pistols, together with sufficient ammunition for a battalion and a considerable amount of high explosives.

Seawitch MacLean, Alistair 1977

Each batted-ball type is given a value based on the league average for that type-a weighted average of run values for each outcome (a little single, a little out, a little home run, etc.).

The Hardball Times Harry Pavlidis 2010