Word: leaderlessness
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...come to trust Sharon, even though we never fully understood what his precise plans were. Many of us felt that, somehow, he was going to pull off something big. But what exactly, and on what terms, remained in his head. Now, perhaps, we will never know. We are left leaderless...
...appointment represents a step towards rebuilding HMC’s staff after a string of departures from high-level posts. HMC may find itself leaderless unless a successor to departing president Jack R. Meyer is named soon. Meyer, who announced in January that he was leaving HMC with four associates to start a new investment firm, has told The Crimson that tomorrow will be his last day. In addition to Scudder and Meyer, Jeffrey B. Larson, who managed foreign equity for HMC, left with 14 members of his team in July 2004 to start a hedge fund...
...thousands of Icelandic women walked off their jobs for 24 hours last week to protest "male privilege." Businessmen could not place telephone calls because most of Iceland's switchboard operators had joined their sisters on protest lines chanting, "We dare! We can! We will!" The government was temporarily leaderless because President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir had stayed away from her office to demonstrate solidarity with the striking women. Worst of all was the problem of breakfast. Many Icelandic men, having awakened to discover that their wives were refusing to prepare the morning meal, jammed restaurants...
...chemical and biological officer, responsible for managing preparations for unconventional attacks. But that position is a desk job, and Colgan, a 12-year veteran of the special forces, longed to be on the streets. "Use my skills," he told Rabena. At the time, the Tomb Raiders were leaderless, their original commander having remained in Germany for the birth of his first child, so Colgan...
...threat seriously, but rejects the raf comparison. "The raf was a group of people with a much more sophisticated intellectual background," the official says. But the radical right is increasingly forming loose, cell-like structures, following a strategy popularized by the British neo-Nazi organization Combat 18, which promotes "leaderless resistance" through a decentralized network of activists. Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which monitors extremist groups, said in its 2002 report that while the membership of extreme-right organizations is falling, their willingness to use violence is increasing. According to the report, there were almost...