Word: drill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Burns ("I have a very, very hands-on approach") to go through the whole drill -- the 5:45 a.m. hikes, the Win/Win negotiating workshop, the Take This Job and Love It seminar. She could write the book on most of it. She does not need a dawn trek to command explosive animal energy all day. Her touch at negotiating is magic -- people can't seem to tell whether they have come out of a deal with gold or dross, but whatever it is, they're happy. In her professional career Burns has held three positions and adored each...
...sponsors, and most raised many thousands more. But Michigan's team gathered nearly $800,000. Not only is its Sunrunner computer-designed and wind-tunnel-tested, but it is also assisted by a scout vehicle carrying weather-forecasting equipment and by a rolling metal shop (complete with lathes and drill press) to help make any needed repairs. The Michigan racers have a computerized map of every traffic light and speed zone along the course, a film crew and a public relations manager...
...recess, and the boys head to the courtyard to perform a drill. Three of them, carrying Kalashnikovs carved of wood, step across imaginary mines, break into an enemy post and surround two "Russian" prisoners. The boys act out the taking and holding of the prisoners, the blindfolding and the stiff parade back to the base. What happens next to the prisoners is not acted...
Pavlov remembers his early schooling as little more than a continual drill in Marxism-Leninism. "I recall one of my friends being asked to analyze a political point," he says. "Our teacher said that two of his three observations were correct because they accorded with Comrade Stalin's views. But the third deviated from the official line. The only explanation for my friend's heresy, the teacher said, was that the devil had taken over part of his brain. That's what school was like...
That did not deter Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the A.W.B., from staging a military drill of 300 of his "officers," whose job, he said, will be to establish countrywide commando groups to oppose a black government. When Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok arrived on a fact-finding trip, he met a heavily armed A.W.B. contingent outside the Welkom police station. Its Land Rover carried a bumper sticker reading IF GUNS ARE OUTLAWED, HOW CAN WE SHOOT LIBERALS? "There is no force in this world," says Terre Blanche, "that will stop ((Afrikaners)) from defending themselves." Vlok has given...