Word: championed
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...workers were allowed to participate in decisions, they would not only become happier and more productive but also provide valuable insights. CEOs prized his clarity. But everyone who labors in a cubicle, in the field or on a factory floor should prize Drucker too. He was a free-market champion and staunch defender of profits. But he showed us how those things need not be at odds with a dignified, productive work force...
...last resort, one ready strategy for fending off the rage of its Arab street: beyond avoidance lay appeasement. No country in the West has done more to cultivate world Arab opinion, to appease Arab terrorists, to ostentatiously oppose American Middle East policy (Iraq above all), to champion the signal Arab cause of Palestine. It was no accident that Yasser Arafat chose Paris as his place to die--Paris, after Jerusalem, his second holiest city...
Maybe it’s because they meet so late in the year. Maybe it’s a result of their shared dominance in the Ivy League. For whatever reason, the fact remains—the Penn-Harvard rivalry game has determined the Ivy champion for the last five years...
...best swimmers in Ivy League history,” senior co-captain Dave Cromwell said. “The fact that he took a year off to train for Olympic qualifying is a testament to the type of swimmer he is. We also lost James Lawler, an Ivy League Champion and school record holder, as well as Andy Krna who provided great leadership as a captain...
...really lose a lot—although they lost their captain, Rebecca Russell.”After the opening tough stretch, however, things calm down a bit for Harvard until Nov. 25 and 26 for two games against Duluth. Unlike last season when Wisconsin and two-time defending champion Minnesota were on its schedule, the Crimson does not face either team this year.“We tried to play them this year before going to Duluth on Thanksgiving weekend and they weren’t able to do it,” Stone said. “We want...