Word: mantras
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Pitching and defense win championships. That’s the mantra with which Joe Walsh, coach of the Harvard baseball team, entered this season.And even after a second-place finish in the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe Division behind conference champion Brown’s offensive juggernaut, he’s sticking to it. “I still go back to those things being the key to baseball, and not offensive explosion,” Walsh said. “I’m always going to feel deep down that that’s what?...
ExxonMobil's official mantra is that "we are doing all we can to bring more petroleum products to market to meet growing energy needs." The numbers say otherwise, and this is a company where numbers speak louder than words. The number that matters most is return on capital employed--that is, net profits divided by what's been invested in oil rigs, pipelines, refineries, etc. ExxonMobil's ratio, 32.2% last year, is consistently the industry's best. When ExxonMobil gives more money to shareholders than it spends on capital and exploration, that means its executives can't find enough...
...answer to Wall Street, but with sailing, waterskiing and dining on your doorstep. Eight new skyscrapers are in the works that would quadruple Singapore's supply of top-quality office space by 2010. Partnering with both local and foreign developers, government planners have applied every element of its newest mantra-"live, work, play"-to the area. "It's definitely [the government's] vision," says Martin, the general manager of Marina Bay Financial Centre. "But they've convinced the private sector to foot the bill...
...vomited, or had a thought about anything below their waist, ever, ever, ever.” No matter how far away our lifestyle moves from the literature of our childhood, some sentimental tie remains. But “nothing below their waist” is no longer the central mantra of successful children’s lit, provoking a backlash in recent years. The 1996 winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s equivalent of the Newbery Prize, was Melvin Burgess’ “Junk,” a novel about a group of heroin-addicted, anarchy...
...point. With contractors rumored to make up 50-60% of the CIA's workforce it is difficult to tell who is running the place. The contractors' mantra is that the CIA needs more contractors to fix it. Management is too beleaguered and on the defensive to do what is really necessary - rebuild the CIA from top to bottom...