Word: maximation
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Whether he wanted to or not, Al Haig has got himself into the same game. But he has added some new dimensions. He confronted a President in public, a heretofore forbidden gambit in power survival. Then he brushed aside another old maxim: if you have to claim pre-eminence publicly, you have already lost it. In the past, such pronouncements have often been the point of no return down the slippery slope toward the premature opportunity to go back to high pay, lush fringe benefits and absolute authority in the old firm. The odd thing is that when it happens...
...drink too much; where a black market in gasoline, used cars and objets d'art overmatches its Western counterpart; where suicide is disguised-who would take his own life in paradise? Yet it is also a place where dissidence is the badge of the patriot, and protesters underline Maxim Gorky's observation: "The Russian people ... learned to make sorrow a diversion ... made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment; and on a vacant face a bruise becomes an adornment...
...then on his own, Haig rose to a variety of important jobs; at one point he prepared briefings that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara presented to the President and the National Security Council. Once the major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam began, Haig decided to heed the old maxim that no Army officer can rise to the top without experience in combat command, which he lacked despite some brief battle experience in Korea. He went to Viet Nam in 1966 and the next year led a battalion to victory in the battle of Ap Gu, one of the major engagements...
...Everything that is outmoded or that will hinder our progress, and everything that can be used to maintain the power and privilege of the Tory establishment must be swept away," exclaims far-left M.P. Eric Heffer. Heffer, 59, rejects the old British maxim that "the Labor Party owes more to Methodism than Marx." His view is blunt: "Marxism has been a more powerful influence...
...there is any truth to the old maxim that there is a direct correlation between musical virtuosity and mathematical wizardry, then retiring Time Inc. Group Vice President, Magazines, Arthur Keylor is a case in point. He came to this company 32 years ago as a young man with a horn (best schoolboy trumpet player in New England) and a Harvard Business School degree. He has been making beautiful music ever since his first days in the comptroller's department, where, he recalls, "I had little knowledge of accounting, but there I was closing the books...