Word: believingness
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He refused to bear grudges or pay people back for previous hurts. While his colleagues tended to let things fester and brooded over perceived slights, he argued that "no man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention." So rare in a politician, this...
Choosing a woman for a senior position used to be enough to spark speculation that the company was in trouble. Leanne Lachman, president of the Chicago-based Real Estate Research Corp. (estimated 1985 revenues: $7.8 million), recalls that her promotion in 1979 triggered such stories about her firm. Says she...
Often the state must intervene in cases where abuse or neglect is suspected. Two-year-old Ana Marie seemed to be perpetually falling and hurting herself. "I didn't pay her enough attention," admits her mother Kim Adalid, 19, who also has a three-year-old son and expects a...
While traveling abroad, I found that the approaches to birth control vary from country to country. Family-planning classes at Fudan University in Shanghai are in the department of economics because the need to feed and shelter families has become an acute financial problem for the Chinese. Turkey assigns its...
"Somebody said the second most stupid thing in the world that a man could say was that he could understand the Russians," declares the President. "I've often wondered what in hell was the first." But, he adds, he certainly realizes the futility of believing the Russians can be fully...