Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great asset of the Kennedy School is the students [who represent] an international community; the professor only has to let students speak between themselves," said Ehud Amir, head of the Education, Culture and Youth and Sports Department of the new Modi' in municipality...
...decades now, other luminaries have been ignored, even ridiculed, for noting the corrosive effects of America's disastrous war on drugs--the waste of our resources on "crimes" that are merely consensual pleasures, the costly incarceration of millions of harmless Americans, the corruption of police departments by asset-forfeiture programs. If only we would remember that in America money talks and if only we would listen to a person with a pile of it, we might save trillions of dollars and avoid much agony. Now we know how to create change: get a renegade billionaire to back your cause...
...best asset of "In & Out" is Kline, who strikes the right note as the sweetly befuddled English teacher who doesn't quite know how to react once he passes out of the initial shock and denial phase. He isn't given much of a chance to do any really meaningful soul-searching-but he comes brilliantly into his own in his dance scenes, throwing the "Real men don't dance" dictum gleefully to the winds and proving once again that there's nothing sexier, for straights and gays alike, than a good dancer. Tom Selleck also scores high marks...
...begin careers and look at what happens to people, don't assume it's because they're women, " said President and CEO of Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management Inc. Margo Alexander...
...Klerk, 61, gave as a reason for his retirement the fact that despite his huge contribution to the salvation of his country, he is demonized as a symbol of the apartheid past and is therefore more of a liability than an asset to today's multiracial National Party. Last week he told TIME: "I've always adhered to the management philosophy that a top manager shouldn't be in the job too long." The remark was characteristically De Klerk: low key, declining the chance to paint himself as a large figure in history...