Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John has viewed the school as a business that's in the business of developing and disseminating intellectual capital," says Stevenson. "If the goal is to have an impact on the way people think about business, then you really have to say that disseminating it broadly is an important element of that task--and John has promoted us well...
...there remain some B-School students who have yet to be convinced that the study of ethics, either in its own right or in the context of other cases, is a necessary element of business education...
...chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
...conventional-force imbalance between the alliance and the Soviet bloc. Second, and more important, they are a deterrent. They raise the level of uncertainty in the mind of a potential aggressor. He has to consider that the cost of war may be too high. It's the element of unpredictability of what might happen in a nuclear exchange that keeps war from happening. So regardless of whether we can ever get conventional-force parity, I believe nuclear weapons have an indispensable peacekeeping value irrespective of the conventional balance...
Dogs recur as an important element in many of his photographs, and Erwitt attributes his fascination with the animals to their "anthropomorphic appeal." "Dogs are simply funny when you catch them in certain situations...But dogs [also] have human qualities...