Word: assets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week before the Viet Cong's murderous Tet offensive. Thus did the President bring back the commander of the third greatest overseas force in American history, faint-praising him as "a very talented and very able officer." Westmoreland, it was clear, was no longer an unalloyed political asset...
...still concentrate heavily on sins of the flesh-to the point that the message sometimes seems to be more "How to do it" than "Thou shalt not." An evangelist in North Carolina told Caldwell that before his "conversion" he had been a chronic womanizer; past wrongdoings were now an asset, he added, since in his sermons "I always start off talking about the sins I know about firsthand, because people want to know if their sins are about the same or different than mine." Caldwell also notes that many devout Southerners still cannot see the disparity between their concern...
...replace Dowling, now 72 and company chairman, as president. Scharffenberger already knew the role: he was hired away from a seven-year career at Litton, where he had worked up to senior vice president, handled the company's big defense business. Intrigued by the possibilities of an "asset-rich, earnings-poor company," Scharffenberger moved East and, with a few other West Coast recruits, laid plans for diversification...
...This will be a team of spectacular individual strength," Harvard track captain Jeff Huvelle said yesterday, summing up his expectations for the outdoor season. "Our main asset will be our ability to pulverize the opposition in certain events...
Over the weekend, Americans were treated to a radically different political style in the person of Robert Kennedy. Whether by design or not, Kennedy suggests youth as opposed to wisdom, bashfulness as opposed to frankness. He worries a lot about his hair and counts his teeth as a clear asset. Like his older brother, he is attracted to a vague kind of fancy rhetoric, consisting chiefly of parallelisms (often redundant) and alliteration (often meaningless). This means he is attracted to a speechwriter named Ted Sorensen, who apparently drafted Kennedy's kick-off speech Saturday and who cab boast some...