Word: approaches
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...opened Shanghai to foreign investors during his three years as mayor, starting a boom that lasts to this day, and displayed his no-nonsense approach to the business of doing business. According to Gareth Chang, who was head of a McDonnell Douglas joint venture in Shanghai, Zhu cut official banquets from 12 dishes to four because "first of all, most of us couldn't eat that much, and second, he thought the longer meals were a waste of time." In 1991, Zhu was recalled to Beijing, where he became Vice Premier and successfully curbed China's rampant inflation. Last year...
...candidate who is the best,=They just pick their buddies,<= as he puts it. The overseers have to approve any new corporation member and participate in the search, but by and large, the corporation chooses its new members itself, seeking out talented alumni and friends of the University to approach with the awesome possibility of fellowship. They are self-perpetuating, insulated from outside pressure not only from the students and the public at large, but even from any groundswell in the alumni body, in contrast with the overseers, who are elected by the alumni at large. In short, if they...
According to the panelists, since NATO first started bombing Yugoslav government installations on Mar. 24, it has become clear that NATO's leaders had made gross miscalculations in their intial approach to the crisis...
According to the panelists, since NATO first started bombing Yugoslav government installations on Mar. 24, it has become clear that NATO's leaders had made gross miscalculations in their initial approach to the crisis...
...whole approach has usually been to put the pieces back together. It's the Rodney King solution--can differences be reconciled," Van Evera said. "In Yugoslavia, we have a marriage that cannot be saved...too much blood has been thrown on the floor...