Word: certainly
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...Giamatti was to assume the burdens of a financially-troubled institution in a seemingly hostile environment. In order to make up for Yale's $6 million deficit, Giamatti will have to initiate cost-cutting measures, which will inevitably alienate certain members of the university. To make matters worse, he will have to face the city of New Haven, which is less than pleased with the presence of the monolithic tax-exempt establishment, considered to be both elitist and stingy...
Leaders of both parties opposed the veto and an override seemed certain but White House press secretary Jody Powell said yesterday prior to the vote that "the people will believe the president has done the right thing" regardless of the outcome...
THERE IS A certain theory of the psychology of comedy that would have the comic think everything funny. For myself, I will laugh at almost any incongruity. When I go to The Comic Strip, a club in New York featuring unknown comedians, I giggle at each hopeless tyro while my companions self-consciously sip their beers and check their watches. Thus I have found this theory quite encouraging, and even fancied myself something of a comic...
BURNS'S THEORY of leadership is suggestive and sophisticated, if not convincing. "Leadership," he contends, "is the reciprocal process of mobilizing, by persons with certain motives and values, various economic, political and other resources, in a context of competition and conflict, in order to realize goals independently or mutually held by both leaders and followers...
From this definition he outlines certain standards that a person would have to satisfy before a historian, or a follower, for that matter, could legitimately award him with the badge of leader. A dictator would not qualify because, theoretically, he would not have to respond to anyone's wishes but his own. A tyrant has no followers, only subjects, Burns argues. As a competitor in "a political marketplace," a leader must also have moral purpose to appeal and respond to his followers' wants and needs. In Burns's judgment, the Spiro Agnews and Adolph Hitlers of the world who pander...