Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here, Dukakis talks of his stint at the K-School as a more significant period in his life. He maintains that "I promised myself I would not think seriously about politics for at least two years" after arriving, but from the day he started work, he picked up valuable insight that has helped him in his re-election campaign...
Another aspect Dukakis is more reluctant to discuss is the specific insight he has gained since leaving office. Many attribute his defeat four years ago to arrogance, an unwillingness to deal with people and a feeling that he was somehow above politics. One K-School official who asked not to be identified says that "many people believe he stopped being political the day he took office...
...combine good government with good politics. That is a profound insight Michael gleaned while he was at the Kennedy School," an administrator says...
...assault on South Georgia offered the first concrete insight into the ways Britain might fight its difficult war in the Falklands. Even as Foreign Secretary Pym conferred in Washington with Secretary of State Haig on April 22 about a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis, as many as a dozen members of Britain's elite Special Boat Squadron, an ultra-secret frogman-commando unit, had slipped quietly ashore on the island. Their mission was to scout Argentine troop emplacements and estimate the size of the opposing force. The scouts reported that the Argentine troops at the South Georgia harbor...
Wallingham yesterday defended his results, saying they reflect broad insight about the admissions process and never claim to be detailed predictions of individual cases...