Word: arme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verge of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...event whose light coverage was disproportionate to its significance: it was a matter-of-fact account of a thwarted CIA plot to overthrow Surinam's government. Convinced that the South American country's leader Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse might be soft on Communism. America's favorite foreign policy arm hatched a scheme to oust his regime, which seized power in a military coup in 1980. According to The Times' report, the CIA plan called for a paramilitary force composed primarily of Surinamese exiles to infiltrate the capital city and take over the government Maybe a few American advisors would...
...months before he finally left the Navy in January 1982 after 59 years of cantankerous service, Rickover, now 83, blasted four contractors in particular for making what he called "excessive profits" on their work for the Navy. A House committee asked the General Accounting Office, which is the investigative arm of Congress, to find out whether Rickover was right...
...rules are deceptively simple. The boss is instructed to express his demands succinctly, in One Minute Goals. As soon as he can "catch the employee doing something right," he administers Part 2, One Minute Praising: he says something good fast. The authors advise the boss to put an arm around the employee or touch the person in some other way to convey personal affection. During a One Minute Reprimand, the manager is supposed to explain how hurt and frustrated he is by the employee's poor performance...
This book is little more than an executive-suite version of the conditionedreflex theory pioneered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Pavlov. While such tactics seem to work well on dogs, pigeons and rats, they might not succeed in the office. The first time a boss puts his arm around an employee he is trying to praise, he might find himself on the receiving end of a One Second Reprimand: a punch in the nose...