Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more radical change is taking place within the company's culture. Japan's corporations, for all their technical prowess, tend to be slow-footed giants whose conservative, consensus-driven managers can choke creativity and make a bad situation worse. In Japan, loyalty and longevity are still the paths to advancement. To compete in the digital world, marked as it is by furious speed in product development and dealmaking, Sony will have to be more agile, more aggressive and more--American...
...just as Thompson seemed to have an illegal choke-hold on Wednesday's headlines, up popped Harold Ickes to wrestle them from him. "We played by the rules ? you, and only you, have the power to change the law," said the former Clinton guru. His opening speech to the committee was replete with references to Reaganite fund-raising, the President's right to drink hot beverages, and the GOP's aversion to campaign finance reform. Boil his speech down to two words, and it would have read: you hypocrites...
Zedanowicz suffered from ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. In addition to causing muscle deterioration, sufferers of ALS choke on their own fluids and are revived repeatedly in a process Fieger described as "psychologically terrifying," particularly since the disease leaves their mental abilities intact...
...killed, Richard Pennington was sworn in across town as the new superintendent of police. With the city's reputation in free fall, Pennington moved quickly to replace the department's discredited internal-affairs division with a more independent public-integrity division and to ban controversial restraining tactics such as choke holds and hog-tying...
...WHAT HAPPENS] Bad guys choke Riggs in anticipation of killing...