Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kirkpatrick's cult standing with the party's ruling right wing was firmly established last summer, when her attack on "the San Francisco Democrats," whom she blamed for an era of national self-doubt, drew a foot-stamping response at the Republican Convention in Dallas. While her departure from the Administration was somewhat strained, Reagan went to considerable lengths to retain her. Though it has never been mentioned publicly, Secretary of State George Shultz offered her a job as his deputy. Kirkpatrick has continued to please conservative supporters with calls for an assertive U.S. foreign policy. She has been especially...
...remains unclear why the Hutton employees carried out the fraud. One possible reason is that Hutton managers are paid bonuses tied to the company's profits. But management experts doubt that greed is the full explanation. They point out that middle-level executives in many companies are constantly under stress to meet tough earnings targets. Says John Fleming, a professor at the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business Administration: "For middle managers, there is so much pressure to get a certain degree of performance that they sometimes feel they almost have to do something illegal to meet...
Fleming contends that top management must set moral standards and enforce them. "It really starts with the chief executive officers," he says. "They have to convince employees that they want ethical behavior." Other experts, however, doubt that employee actions can be controlled from the boardroom. Says Thomas Donaldson, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago who has studied business ethics: "What we're seeing, as corporations get larger and larger, is a breakdown in the lines of accountability. We've created some superstructures in business that are wild- ly complex, and we haven't tamed them...
...prosecution, which called most of the same witnesses from the first trial, sought to prove that Von Bulow was motivated by the love of Alexandra and the money of Sunny. Yet during the 24 days of prosecution testimony, Defense Counsel Puccio pugnaciously cross-examined the witnesses and successfully cast doubt on much of the crucial testimony...
...first trial, Isles proved an effective tragedienne. Despite her little-girl-lost demeanor, she turned steely under cross-examination. Frustrated by Puccio's needling attempts to pin down her changing emotions about Von Bulow, she burst out to the bespectacled defense attorney, "Have you ever been in love? I doubt it." Puccio wryly replied, "Maybe I can tell my wife to answer that...