Word: honors
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Harvard tailback Eion Hu was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for his play in the Crimson's 27-17 win at Holy Cross on Saturday. It is the second time in three weeks he has earned the honor...
...reason for this public relations offensive is that Jack Welch, perhaps the most admired corporate manager in America, is suddenly fighting for his honor as GE faces embarrassments from its outpost on Wall Street to its half- century-old engine division in Evendale, Ohio. Chief among the problems is the mess at Kidder Peabody, GE's money-losing brokerage unit, where head government-bond trader Joseph Jett concocted $350 million of phony profits over a 29-month period before he was fired in April. Jett now claims to have been acting with the knowledge of his superiors. The scandal...
Culled from interviews with the principals and other reports, the details of how the deal was wrought are melodramatic, sometimes outlandish, with images of a marionette severing its strings, of a wife for whom honor is more important than life, of diplomacy being improvised as time runs...
Powell proved convincing. He responded to the concerns of Cedras and his wife with a heartfelt plea to military honor: when a mission became impossible, the duty of a commander was to protect the soldiers serving under him and not get them killed. Cedras and his wife listened intently. It was, said Nunn, "a very strong and, I think, decisive argument...
With Clinton's approval in hand, Jonassaint signed the agreement. The Defense Minister quit on the spot. Cedras sat mute. Then Powell asked him point-blank if he would accept the agreement. Cedras stood erect and pledged his word of honor that he would "obey the command of my president...