Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student of leadership, which he defined as the ability to gain support for policies that people viscerally question, Rabin was fascinated with the idea of toughness, or "its perception," as he astutely put it. "That saying Americans have--that only Nixon could go to China--that's the essence of it," Rabin said, presciently foreshadowing what the world would come to think of his own breakthrough diplomacy with the Arabs. "Sometimes even if a goal is correct, only a certain person can make it happen. Nixon could change on China because he was seen as strong enough to deal with...
...from a vintage Army Air Corps barracks at the Fresno airport. The furnishings are Holiday Inn castoffs and a pawnshop TV. In-flight meals are a rarity, and other economies are visible. Air 21 doesn't buy paper napkins; it gets them free from restaurants in Fresno that thereby gain advertising for their names...
...assured that their future is directly linked to the well-being of the company. Employees should know the truth about the performance of the company and how their own work contributes to that performance. And the employer should not sacrifice the employee on the altar of short-term stock gain. People who have been downsized make poor consumers. What will happen when there is no one who can afford to buy all the cheap products these downsized companies are churning out? The last computer and the last ceo in each company will have to turn off the lights and downsize...
...Quakers' loss in the second game against the Crimson allowed the second-place Tigers (10-14, 5-3) to gain crucial ground in the Gehrig race...
...growing tired of making bombs. "Certainly his ending his level of seclusion to the point of submitting the manifesto and writing letters," says Ken Thompson, a domestic-terrorism specialist who retired from the FBI last year, "indicated someone at a point in his life where he wanted to gain the popularity of what he had done...