Word: bismarck
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...President cannot take away the curse of a controversial decision by hesitation in its execution. Use of military force must always be made with a prayerful concern for Bismarck's profound dictum: "Woe to the statesman whose reasons for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning...
...nation with an all but obsessive concern about self-improvement, one institution so far has remained relatively impervious to change: the bureaucracy. Otto von Bismarck inaugurated the German civil service in 1871, an innovation that many of his countrymen now regard as the Iron Chancellor's least admirable accomplishment. There is hardly a German who has not been humiliated at one time or another by the uniquely imperious attitude of public employees-a maddening amalgam of officiousness, condescension and cantankerousness. A recent West German telephone poll, for example, showed that 62% of the callers were "very critical" of their...
...Hillenbrand over dinner at Chicago's Bismarck Hotel. In blue jeans and a baggy smock, without her stage makeup and wigs, she bore little resemblance to the ethereal Giselle or the wide-eyed Clara of The Nutcracker. Hillenbrand had watched her perform on a recent evening...
...mercury plunged, too, in the Midwest, where temperatures dropped as low as -25° in Bismarck, N. Dak., and -17° in Minneapolis. But there and in the West, the weather was so bad that it turned out to be good: the rain and snow fell in such massive volume that the worrisome two-year-old drought seemed virtually to be over...
...financial disabilities of old age were first recognized as a serious social problem by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who initiated the social security pension system in 1884. He arbitrarily set the age for receiving benefits at 65, and his model has been followed ever since in much of the Western world. The same age for receiving benefits?and therefore being a candidate for forced retirement?was enshrined in the U.S. Social Security system when it was established in 1935, and was copied in almost all the private pension plans that mushroomed after World War II. Yet in Bismarck...