Word: chapter
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...when writing about TheSoldier and the State (one of the books uponwhich his reputation as a political scientist isbased), and its reception in the 1970s, he states:"Some indications of this trend in the directionof a more conservative realism compatible with theprofessional military outlook were brieflysketched in the final chapter of The Soldierand the State. Indeed, the publication ofThe Soldier and the State, with itsunabashed defense of the professional militaryethic and rejection of traditional liberalism, wasitself evidence of the changing intellectualclimate." A scientist does not give an "unabasheddefense" of the object of his study...
...revelations of these celestial sums were yet another chapter in the saga of Bakker, an Assemblies of God minister who for 13 years ran the $129 million-a-year PTL empire, which includes the Heritage USA theme park in Fort Mill, S.C. Six weeks ago he stepped down as PTL president and chairman after admitting to a 1980 tryst with Massapequa, N.Y., Church Secretary Jessica Hahn and to then making a "blackmail" payment. A $265,000 hush-money package was assembled for Hahn and her advisers...
...entered Borges' Labyrinth, turning pages like so many processed bits of the shin bone of the late, great Jimmy Hoffa, then I came to the end of a chapter...
...WRITING such two-dimensional comedies as California Suite and Chapter Two, Neil Simon forever distinguished himself as perhaps the most mediocre playwright to ever have a Broadway theatre named...
Unquestionably, the hygienic solution for both sides would be to reach a settlement that will allow Texaco to emerge from its Chapter 11 cocoon. Executives at the oil giant have suggested such a possibility, maybe an indication that Texaco is using its bankruptcy as bargaining leverage against its smaller opponent. Manhattan Attorney Richard Lieb detects a more nuanced strategy in Texaco's Chapter 11 filing. By keeping most of its operating companies out of bankruptcy, he says, Texaco has issued an "open invitation to continued bargaining." Since bankruptcy does not involve the entire company, he argues, "it may be Texaco...