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SWONK: It started with Michael Milken and Henry Kravis, the hostile takeovers. You could actually fire a ceo. It started in the '80s, culminated in the '90s and was a massive trigger point to adopting new technologies more rapidly, and cost cutting becoming a mantra. People are rewarded for cost cutting...
...signal whiplash, and it was exhausting. The fresh round of alerts began when Vice President Dick Cheney called the prospect of another major attack on the U.S. "very, very real" and suggested that suicide bombings are also a distinct possibility. Three other top Administration officials quickly echoed the fatalistic mantra. Their predictions weren't altogether new, but they contained hotter adjectives than Americans were used to. Before, new attacks were likely; now they were "inevitable." All the while, the FBI dispensed a steady stream of all-terrain warnings--about potential attacks on land, in the air and underwater. Specifically...
...theirs, and they like it even less when they keep falling behind. This is the underlying dynamic that drives Europe's discomfort about the United States: a widening gap between No. 1 and the rest. How is it articulated? The script is practically boilerplate. In polite government circles, the mantra is "unilateralism." Translation: "Those Americans throw their weight around. They respect neither treaties nor traditions. They don't care about their allies unless they need some special forces for Tora Bora. They bestride the world as if it were the Rose Garden of the White House - all theirs." In less...
Recycling as we know it is stupid, or so say architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press; 208 pages). The environmentalist mantra of reduce, reuse and recycle is based on the singularly flawed idea, according to the authors, that all things must pass into waste. Even if you turn that pop bottle into a fleece jacket?by applying brute force and chemical processing?that seemingly useful incarnation is just an additional step between raw material and landfill. "If humans are truly going to prosper, we will have...
University is from the Latin universus meaning whole. However, Harvard’s familiar mantra of “every tub on its own bottom” fragments the University and exacerbates the lack of interaction among the students and faculty of its several schools...