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Meanwhile, in the urban areas of Transcaucasia and Central Asia, Russian is steadily encroaching on native languages among young people. They have the option of attending classes taught in local languages, but they know???and their parents know???that upward and outward mobility in Soviet society depends on being
...take the creative chances that would pay big dividends on some distant tomorrow. The median age of corporate chiefs is now 59, and so they are often driven to achieve short-term results. There is too much pressure for risk-free, sure and often modest success. Unless managers know???and the public understands?that they must be free to fail in some ventures or wait for the longer-term payoff, they will never take the daring step...
...What did it look like?" "Like?like?It had the biggest head you ever saw... A huge great enormous thing, like?like nothing. A huge big?well, like a ?I don't know???like an enormous big nothing..." ?A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh...
...with endless queries. It took the elegant Carlyle Hotel two days to determine whether or not he had actually checked into his suite. At one point a maid burst into his room, found Beatty on the telephone and complained: "Nobody has slept in the bed again. I want to know???are you going to stay here tonight?" Finally Beatty sheepishly threw up his hands and announced, "Well, it looks like this hotel has blown my cover...
Years ago, somebody asked James Rowe, the forner administrative assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, whether his boss really understood all those complex Depression nostrums he was proposing. Rowe considered the question a few seconds, then replied: "I don't know???probably not, but Roosevelt sure knew how to be President...