Word: maximalism
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...also had a stomach ache, but it was an emotionally satisfying pain. Think of it as advance compensation for the emotional trauma of being turned down for a job. And if that rationale doesn't suit you, I refer you to the age old maxim of desperate college students from all eras...
...military maxim has it that amateurs talk about strategy while professional soldiers discuss logistics. That is as true in the age of intercontinental missiles as it was in Napoleon's day. The hardest part of any war is moving fighting forces into the field and supplying their gargantuan needs. When the U.S. decided last week to draw "a line in the sand" of the Arabian Peninsula, it took on an immense logistical task. Keeping troops supplied with water in the desert's 120 degrees heat will be as vital as keeping them supplied with ammunition...
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...study, undertaken by Yale economics professor Robert Shiller along with Soviet sociologist Vladimir Korobov and economist Maxim Boycko, involved interviews with 391 people in Moscow and 361 in New York City last May. The objective was to compare the free-market inclinations of the two groups. Among the questions asked: Does a table manufacturer have the right to raise prices if the company can't keep up with private demand? Most of the Soviet and U.S. consumers responded just as Adam Smith would have: yes, the manufacturer ; should be able to raise prices...
...principal trade problem is not with each other but with Japan, which continues to run huge surpluses in its trade with both. If trade issues must be expressed in military terms, one maxim of sage strategists is not to fight two-front wars, if they can be avoided...