Word: leaderlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MONTHS LATER, JOHNSON was working out with the Lakers, who until last week were a young and talented but leaderless team stuck in third place in the Pacific Division. After a few practice sessions, the guard tandem of Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones, and later coach Del Harris and Laker executive vice president Jerry West, put a full-court press on Johnson, asking him to return, telling him that he was just what the team needed. Said Harris: "I don't care if I have to sleep outside his house. I want him." Perhaps the most important endorsement came...
...Brigadoon -- a flowering remnant of the '60s, when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution. At the time, it all seemed dangerously anarchic (and still does to many), but the counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal- computer revolution...
...what Gingrich is becoming is this: the pre-eminent political leader in America. As the new Republican * rulers of Congress converge on Washington to begin their reign this week, they will find the Democrats still in shock from their repudiation in the November elections -- and grumbling that they are leaderless to boot. President Clinton, they complain, has yet to frame any coherent strategy for dealing with a Republican-controlled Congress. Said a senior Administration official: "Part of the strategy, to the extent there is a strategy, is to wait and see what Gingrich and company do." The President...
...faculty also wants a speedy search. Left leaderless in the midst of the University's $2.1 billion capital campaign, the school is also badly understaffed. Several top teachers are in Washington, and almost 10 searches will be going on this fall in a faculty of only about 95 people...
...faculty also wants a speedy search. Left leaderless in the midst of the University's $2.1 billion capital campaign, the school is also badly understaffed. Several top teachers are in Washington, and almost 10 searches will be going on this fall in a faculty of only about 95 people...