Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Executives are a company's largest corporate asset," says Chicago Security Specialist Norman Kiven. "In the past few years, corporations have become much more concerned." As evidence, membership in the field's professional association, the American Society for Industrial Security, has increased 133% in the past five years. A New York State chemical firm uses helicopters to move officials in and out of headquarters, both for business trips and commuting. Security at Houston's United Gas Pipe Line Co. was beefed up this year after a former employee armed with a loaded gun and a hand grenade...
...lessons of a Soviet education is that while one must know the Marxist-Leninist catechism, and party membership is a great asset, being a true believer is not necessary; it may even be a disadvantage in a society where power enjoys more respect and earns more reward than ideological purity. A British Foreign Office expert on the U.S.S.R. sees the country as "running out of ideological élan with which to face the many challenges of the future." Ideology is still an important, indeed inescapable, aspect of Soviet life. Its trappings are everywhere. The country is plastered with huge billboards...
...almost any topic, Reagan finds and stresses a connection with the Soviet-American rivalry. Israel is "a strategic asset" and "a deterrent to Soviet expansionism." He advocates military assistance to the anti-Marxist guerrillas of Afghanistan and Angola. Cuba represents "the threat of Soviet influence spreading through the Caribbean," and Nicaragua is a bear's paw threatening U.S. interests in Latin America. He even plays down the Sino-Soviet split, emphasizing that whatever the quarrels between China and the Soviet Union, "both are Communist, and both want to take over the world...
...year, and George Shultz, a former Treasury Secretary. Other possibilities: Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman, and former Nixon Aides Alexander Haig and Donald Rumsfeld. Sears urged Reagan to keep open the option of naming Henry Kissinger before the election in order to broaden his support. "Kissinger is quite an asset in terms of the credibility he maintains," says Sears. "He could be a great help to anyone who happened to be the Republican nominee." But Sears was fired in February, partly because his toying with such ideas offended Reagan's hard-core conservative supporters...
...nation. Latins argue that the Cubans (450,000 in Dade County alone) have accelerated business development, brought fresh blood and vigor to the area, and thus more jobs. That is true. In fact, the entire logic of immigration rests upon the fact that immigrants are almost always an asset, a new presence, a little bit frightened and often left ingenious. But the Latin renaissance has left blacks in an unhappy third place in the community. Often they cannot get jobs if they do not speak Spanish; they feel, there fore, doubly estranged. Their question presents an almost un answerable grievance...