Word: control
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...analyst looked at the category, at international expansion - he had a story - but the question is, how many companies in history have ever done that? The psychology of this is that there are all these illusions that we have, like the illusion of superiority and the illusion of control. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Speaking of which, you write that money management is one of the best examples of the illusion of control in the professional world ... I was hoping no one would read that...
That hard work began right at kickoff, as the Quakers took control of the ball, firing their first shot three minutes into play. But Harvard reclaimed possession and took its first shot six minutes later with a wide header from freshman Alexandra Conigliaro...
...early June, Iran was at the apex of its power on the world stage. Aid to insurgents in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon had helped convert Tehran into a regional superpower rivaled only by Israel. At home, hard-liners led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had consolidated control of parliament, the judiciary and the military and marginalized reform parties...
...cease-fire will likely hold - imperfectly - because the alternatives are worse," says Aaron Miller, a former adviser to six U.S. Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli affairs and a public-policy fellow at a Washington think tank. "Hamas achieved gains - propaganda; largely the leadership survived; and they still control Gaza. The Israelis got an end to high-trajectory rocket fire into Israel. If either of those objectives are undermined, then things could start up again...