Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study by the Booz Allen & Hamilton management consulting firm found, for example, that business managers often spend no more than 29% of their time on actual "thought work" such as reading, creating documents and problem solving. More often, the workday gets drained away in such time-consuming and distracting activities as arranging meetings and conferences, searching for information, and waiting for the preparation and delivery of reports and studies...
...some of the actual participants interpret things differently. In August, two Mondale supporters, one of whom serves on the commission, wrote an op-ed piece in the Post calling for, among other things, a rule guaranteeing uncommitted positions to a large number of elected officials. Scott Lang, one of Kennedy's representatives on the panel, says bluntly. "They believe that would help Mondale. Their motivation should be what's better for the party, not what's better for a candidate. That's the way we're approaching it," he adds...
...after its two mammoth predecessors--The Best and the Brightest, his magnificent study of how arrogance bred disaster in Vietnam, and The Powers That Be, his un-magnificent but still good investigation of the modern media empires. To his credit, Halberstam realizes that basketball, for all its symbolic and actual importance, is not the metaphor for contemporary America. Halberstam's humility, at least about his subject, comes as a welcome surprise...
...members voting against the race-conscious proposal favored a "race neutral" affirmative action plan which would not take the race of applicants into consideration in the actual selection but would only give minorities more opportunities to apply...
...does, it can also have the opposite effect--empowering, emboldening, bolstering courage to the point where men will take risks like these. Catholic Mass becomes political in two senses in this movie: Walesa's repeated demands for free worship are important, surely, but even more important are the actual fact of the church services themselves, carried on inside the shipyard when the cause is human dignity, the words of the Our Father or the repeated Hail Marys must take on new, hopeful meanings...