Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...housing, even ample stipends. DuPont's madness and violent tendencies were clearly worsening--he had threatened wrestlers with guns before the alleged shooting. But they probably wanted to continue to milk his benevolence at least until the summer Olympics. These wrestlers probably put too much stock in the old maxim, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth...
...very important to us." But to others, Gingrich was simply facing reality. "We're drained and we're tired, and we're not moving ahead," said a Republican second-term Congressman. "If the troops don't get a break soon, we will crack." He also noted a favorite Gingrich maxim, not original to him, which says the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result...
There's an old maxim that states "You can't judge a book by its cover." Well, as Woody Allen's latest proves, you can't judge a movie by its title, either...
...knows him thinks there is much of anything Colin Powell hasn't thought through. In this instance, Powell's nonresponse, which robs his pro-choice stance of an important real-world consequence, reveals caution rather than ignorance--and a finely honed political instinct as well. To a favorite Powell maxim, "Don't make a decision until you have to," one should probably add, "And don't rub it in unless you must...
...strategy is working. ATF agents often quote a maxim: "Big cases, big problems; no cases, no problems." The intense and well-orchestrated opposition has succeeded in discouraging ATF from aggressively pursuing investigations of gun shows, flea markets and licensed gun dealers, even though these often prove to be major conduits for the diversion of guns to criminals. The bureau's reluctance to investigate dealers has long driven agents to jokingly describe a dealer's license as "the $10 immunity." (Until two years ago, the annual licensing fee was $10.) A series of standing ATF orders closely choreographs all such investigations...