Word: esprit
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...downhill racing at gunpoint; a bobsled run on skis; ice hockey using players as pucks. Director Glen has kept the plot moving briskly, and, in several action sequences, clipped a frame or two from within a shot to increase the impact. With prominent display of Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo, a Neptune two-man submarine and a "Jim" diving suit, For Your Eyes Only is an accumulation of gadgets and brand names-a Radio Shack of a boy wizard's dreams...
...brokers are mere cogs in a mammoth money machine. In fact, when Merrill Lynch merged with the old-line investment-banking firm of White Weld, dozens of executives quit to avoid being consumed by the world's largest brokerage house. But there is a strong Marine-like esprit de corps among the troops at Merrill Lynch that stems from the psychological and financial rewards of being the runaway...
...moral passion and drama of the early civil rights struggle was one of the most important reasons for the group's success. Less traditionally Christian than King and his followers, SNCC spawned an emotional, windy pride and esprit that made up for the $10 a week wages and the dangers that went with trying to organize as entrenched an area as Amite County, Mississippi. They were "action-oriented," possessed of a "revolutionary elan," filled with courage and passion. Carson quotes a Black Georgia woman who lost her job when she let SNCC workers stay in her house...
...dollars, and the trend has continued since. Last year the Government provided an 11.7% military pay increase, but that was more than canceled by 12.4% inflation. All branches of the services are struggling to find ways to retain NCOs: bigger re-enlistment bonuses, better housing allowances, better discipline and esprit de corps. One attractive idea being discussed: permitting a career soldier to transfer his present education benefits to his own children or spouse. All told, the cost of needed pay increases and benefits is estimated at $4.4 billion for this year...
...first in the line of fire to save it. By 1985, say Pentagon projections, the Army will be 45% black. The troubling part is not that blacks and other minority groups are incapable of defending the nation well (on the contrary, they often possess the brains and esprit some others lack), or that they should not be allowed to improve their lot with military careers. The difference is that guarding the nation is not just another job; it is a moral obligation involving jeopardies and commitments that cannot safely be jobbed out, in effect, on a mercenary basis. There seems...