Word: blusterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chrysler's recovery is largely lacocca's doing, a triumph of brains, bluster and bravado. When the company needed money and the banks dithered, he threatened to go into bankruptcy. When he needed pay cuts and the union protested, he warned that he would shut plants. When Chrysler could not pay its bills, he persuaded suppliers to be patient. It now seems a plausible bet?not yet even money but not 100 to 1 either?that lacocca's company will survive as No. 3 against its behemoth competitors, General Motors and Ford, and occasionally even threaten them. Of course...
...executives' visit came during one luncheon. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko, in a 90-minute diatribe, lashed out against U.S. imperialism and economic policies. It struck newcomers to U.S.Soviet trade talks as rather inappropriate, but older hands took it all in stride as standard Soviet bluster...
...opportunities and perils for the U.S. On the one hand. President Reagan must be careful to retrain from belligerent anti-Soviet rhetoric. A nation like the U.S.S.R.--manned by new leaders anxious to gain a firmer foothold in power is unlikely to treat the President's words as mere bluster, and a precipitous response could have grave repercussions...
Amid the tradition of pomp and bluster, Peter N. Smith '83 has his work cut out for him. Smith is student government's soft-spoken, almost nondescript treasurer; it's hardly a glorious spot. But as keeper of the student government's first-eve $58,000 budget, the placid rookie to campus politics will undoubtedly become one of Harvard's better known student leaders, if not one of the most controversial...
...mathematical, and physical notions of space, time and motion [also examined] in the light of modern biology and psychology; time and continuity...cosmology," precedes by a mere 713 pages, Sanskrit 202br, Paninian Grammar II, "interpretations and reworkings of Panini; readings from the Mahabhasya, Siddhanta-Kamudi, and Paribhasendusekhara." If for bluster alone, Harvard deserves some respect...