Word: dictums
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...make the most of our limited time academically. (There was the incident of the water-filled milk bottles dropped down the entry way, which evoked one of Mr. Perkins' best memos, urbanely testy, but on the whole for-giving. But that was the anomalous prank.) The pre-war dictum of "There C's and a D and keep pit of the papers" was I think in abeyance, and my prevailing memory is of long-night struggles at my roommate's portable typewriter, which was quieter than...
...weeks of May. Although McDonald's chairman Jack Greenberg dismisses stories of franchisee unrest as "a guy with a fax machine and eight guys with lawsuits," the corporation has found relations with local operators increasingly hard to digest. The company that used to closely follow founder Ray Kroc's dictum that McDonald's would only be as successful as the local restaurant owner is now oriented to pleasing the stockholder, often at the expense of the franchisee. McDonald's has pushed hard to increase the number of stores on the theory that the company would collect more royalties based...
Students of my generation were taught that E.M. Forster's Howards End is an important novel because its central dictum, "Only connect," is a prescription for the moral life. It was assumed that making connections was a sign of the mind's worth and purpose. Only connect; things fall apart; these fragments I have shored against my ruins. Perhaps this effort to bridge and yoke was a consequence of the big bad Bomb, and of a world growing up under the persistent threat of disintegration. Perhaps it was simply an invention of the academy in which exam questions insisted...
...Dole had only one move to make in 1995--a shift to the right side of the road. For the close circle around Dole, the question was not whether to flank Phil Gramm, but how soon and by how much. Dole knew the truth of Nixon's dictum: run hard to starboard in the primaries; tack back to the center for the general. The trick, Dole understood, was not getting out so far that he couldn't make it back to safety...
...potential lawyer, I am often loathe to admit one important aspect of legal work. Essentially, the world would be a more pleasant place if lawyers weren't necessary. This dictum applies not only to ambulance-chasers, but to the most altruistic public interest attorneys; all of them work within the context of unfortunate or troubling circumstances. The occupation resides within an essentially broken world; the pursuit of justice is only occasioned by inequity...