Word: bloodlessness
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...ASIA'S BLOODLESS ECONOMY...
...America struggles to understand the Lewinsky affair, there's a natural temptation to make sense of the drama by reducing it to a clash between individual heroes and villains. And so we have a parade of soap-opera caricatures--the overzealous and partisan prosecutor, the lusty young temptress, the bloodless wife, the philandering husband--all competing for blame in the public...
...then as I get closer, I get more nervous. And then when they draw the blood, it's unimaginable--a new level of anxiety starts, and it continues until I get my results back." The tests, so far, have yielded only one surprise: Andy Grove isn't bloodless after...
...confuse casual with unchallenging. Grove sets the tone, and it is always demanding. The people (mostly men) who work for him have inherited (and enforce) an engineer's creed that brings a bloodless "just fix it" intensity to everything from human relations to fabrication. "When I was at Intel, one of the most important values was discipline," says venture capitalist John Doerr, who worked for the firm for six years in the 1970s. "Andy Grove had no tolerance for people who were late or meetings that ran on without a purpose. It wasn't that he was a hard...
...rise up the party ranks received a major boost immediately following the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 1989. In part for his bloodless handling of protests in Shanghai during the summer of that year, Deng chose Jiang as his successor...