Word: maelstroms
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...hard to dispose of. Despite innumerable studies, no connection between murder rates and capital punishment has ever been shown. Of course, it stands to reason -- it's only common sense -- that the possibility of execution would give a potential murderer pause; but those who descend into the mental maelstrom of murder tend to be precisely those who have left reason and common sense behind...
...Rand Araskog, whose $7 million in 1990 compensation touched off a maelstrom, agreed to a dramatic overhaul of his pay package. The company replaced outright stock grants with options based on the performance of the company's stock, and Araskog agreed to reduce the size of his annual bonus. Says Hanson: "Shareholders are waking up to the fact that they're owners and not just investors...
...delegation to the U.N. during the gulf war. The choice for Washington is not between sitting back cost free or taking a risk for peace. Rather, the choice is to intervene now, when the chances for success are highest, or to be sucked back into the Middle East maelstrom later, when there is no chance...
...Charlie Morrison, the Union College hockey coach, had a last thought to add to the maelstrom rushing through his assistant-coach's mind. Morrison called Tomassoni to encourage him one final time to apply for the assistant coach position at Harvard...
...center of the maelstrom is a set of arcane rules, installed gradually after World War II, that turned the Federal Government into America's primary sponsor of university research. Under these regulations, the government foots the bill for research and many of the overhead costs of doing research. These so-called indirect costs, which are not attached to any single project, include university-wide expenses like administration, libraries, roads, utilities and building maintenance. Every university charges the government a different rate for overhead, based on such considerations as geography, which determines a school's energy and wage costs...