Word: entrustment
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Telltale Face. Browning also pointed out that Patty had been allowed to stand guard at night at the S.L.A. hideout while armed with a carbine. "Is it reasonable," he asked, "and again we are talking about what's reasonable in this case, to conclude that the captors would entrust their safety to their hostage, if that is what she were...
...Paolo Freire wrote in his Pedagogy of the Opressed that "rejoining the people" requires a profound rebirth into an equality which no amount of expertise, however necessary, can provide--or replace. He said that leadership grows from the depths of one's caring, with the support of those who entrust a member of the community with a task in their continuing humanization. Bright-eyed junior managerial lemmings who crowd around political figures over sherry in our common rooms may have no inkling of this, except as platitude; neither, for that matter, may self-congratulatory sectarian "radicals," precious literary "humanists...
...sophomores majoring in Economics started their own firm, which has been tripling in growth rate ever since. The president and vice president of the firm do not want to be identified for fear that competitors will hold their youth against them, and because prospective clients may not entrust them with projects...
...peace settlement in the area will require some sort of American-I don't know whether I want to use the word guarantee-but some sort of American assurance as to the viability and security of the state of Israel." Rabin declined such assurance. "We can't entrust our defense to anyone else," he said. Israeli concern was scarcely lightened last week by the news of an agreement in which Egypt, already deeply in debt, will use $1 billion advanced by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to purchase arms in Britain...
...company announced that Principal Conductor James Levine, 31, would be elevated to the post of music director with "primary responsibility for artistic matters." Last week TIME learned that General Manager Chapin will step down after a stormy two-year tenure. The Met's executive committee has decided to entrust the immediate future of the company to a troika headed by Anthony A. Bliss, who was named executive director last November. Reporting to him will be Levine and John Dexter, formerly with Britain's National Theater and the Met's director of production. Levine will be only...