Word: checklists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President looked up. "He had this pained look on his face, like, 'I guess I've got to go back inside now,'" McLarty recalls of that late-spring afternoon. "And I said, 'Mr. President, it's O.K. I just have a checklist. Let's do it here.'" And so for 15 minutes, as the Commander in Chief practiced his chip shots and short strokes, McLarty tagged along, running down items of business. "We should do this more often," McLarty said when he was finished. Replied Clinton hopefully: "Yeah, it kinda works, doesn...
Cottrell took up the study of birds and volunteered for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where he worked untill 1988. He was a director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and served as an editor of James Lee Peters Checklist of Birds of the World...
After 241 American troops on a pointless mission in Beirut were killed by a suicide bomber in 1983, the Reagan Administration struggled to draw lessons from the disaster. The next year, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger offered a checklist for evaluating the future uses of military forces abroad. Such actions should be necessary to protect vital national interests, he advised, and permit the use of powerful force to achieve a decisive victory. The objective must be clear and attainable by military means, and it must be supported by Congress and the people...
...worry, though. With our handy Harvard Student's Holiday Card Checklist, you won't forget anyone you can't afford to slight...
...example, the extremely high "fees" for "courses" given by these groups. A book called Combating Cult Mind Control by Steve Hassan (himself a former member of a cult) is widely available in bookstores and is an excellent primer on the methods and dangers of destructive cults, including a checklist of what constitutes a cult (TM fits the category...