Word: meres
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Ulimately, however, Heimert's pessisism about the state of academic affairs moves beyond mere rhetorical gestures. He says now if he was faced with the same choice upon graduation, he would have attended the law school. And while he cannot retrace his steps, his daughter, Larisa, who attended Yale Law School for the "intellectual enterprise" it offered ultimately rejected the world of academia because it lacked the same freedom...
Eaton was worried that in 10 years only six of the current 30 automakers would be around. Although Chrysler was hugely successful, he feared it would never have the financial muscle to best Ford and GM. That's why Schrempp needed a mere 17 min. around a coffee table in suburban Detroit in January 1998 to convince Eaton that a combination was a good idea...
...poster on tens of thousands of walls. It is the Manhattanite's view from New York City: Eighth and Ninth avenues wide in the foreground, a strip of Hudson River, a smaller strip of New Jersey, the rest of the U.S. missing, and in the far background some mere dots marking Los Angeles, Australia and Japan...
...none other than that most unloved of modern-day diplomats -- former U.N. secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali. According to the New York Times, in his new book, "Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga," the Egyptian envoy savages Albright's diplomatic abilities. "She seemed to assume," he wrote, "that her mere assertion of a U.S. policy should be sufficient to achieve the support of other nations," and tended to lecture foreign leaders rather than engage in the "difficult diplomatic work of persuading [them] to go along with the positions of her government...
That's one reason Jackson has made a career of giving dictators such as Slobodan Milosevic a chance to show their gentler side by releasing captives at his request. It's not mere ego tripping, as some cynics charge, or an expression of Jackson's deeply held belief in nonviolence. It's almost Faustian. I think he needs the rush that only bargaining with evil can provide...