Word: karle
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...Oklahoma City bombing and Ross Perot's recent proposal to launch a new political party. Nye's particular brand of rebellion is driven too by an intense feeling that the combined forces of federal law, environmental activism and urban growth may have doomed a mythic frontier life-style. Says Karl Hess Jr., a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank: "What they really want is to build walls against the future...
Some other attempts at reform hold more promise. Karl Paschke, who occupies the new post of Under Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, is energetically investigating and reporting on how well various agencies do their jobs--a revolutionary idea for the U.N. Says Paschke: "After seven months on the job, I think the U.N. is a good example of waste and inefficiency." Unfortunately, Paschke's authority is limited to those few agencies directly responsible to the Secretariat...
What do thinkers as different as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Madonna have in common? The intuitive answer: absolutely nothing...
...famous essay "The End of History," Francis Fukuyama pointed out that the followers of Karl Marx and the disciples of Adam Smith may actually share something in common, in spite of their very different beliefs. Both groups (along with the Material Girl herself) harbor a deep belief in the importance of material things in our lives. Both groups believe that societal progress can be measured in terms of how many material goods the citizens enjoy...
...Noonan credit much of its success to veteran animal trainer Karl Lewis Miller--"a genius," the director says, at bringing out the character of his charges. Miller and his staff raised 60 pigs by hand to gain their trust. It took 26 weeks to educate the first batch, by which time they had outgrown their optimal cuteness; the training was eventually shortened to 13 weeks. In all, 48 pigs appeared onscreen as Babe...