Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other panelists at the symposium "The International Negotiation Process: Can We Improve It?"--in particular Arthur Hartman '47, ambassador to the Soviet Union--thought that Fisher's plan was not entirely realistic...
...general theme was the necessity for American negotiators to make a serious effort to understand Soviet interests before becoming locked in a particular position. "If we are to be successful--reasonably so--it behooves us to make significant efforts to understand their position, so we can judge their consistency," said former U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson...
Nowadays the company's licensees bring to Polo/Ralph Lauren an expertise in making a particular generic item, to which Lauren adds his design, packaging and promotional ideas. His 38 manufacturers produce virtually everything but Lauren's top-of-the-line Polo menswear. The largest licensee is Cosmair, for fragrances, followed by Bidermann Industries, for womenswear. Lauren retains a final say, which he zealously exercises, over the end products. Recalls Clothing Executive George Ackerman, whose company, Warnaco, makes some of Lauren's moderately priced Chaps menswear: "A few years ago we did a safari jacket with copper snaps. Ralph loved...
...moment, however, much of the vigorous advocacy on the left is coming from citizens' organizations dedicated to particular causes, such as exposing human rights abuses in authoritarian regimes, supporting programs to revitalize urban areas, protecting civil liberties, and enhancing the welfare of the poor and homeless. But the ability of the left to nurture innovative ideas has been hampered by its lack of new research institutes with well- funded facilities and staffs...
...waged war for more than a decade. She had burned their huts, cut their trap lines and paid government guards to bring suspected poachers to her for interrogation. Some of her acquaintances believed the poachers had long ago begun to retaliate by slaughtering her favorite creatures, concentrating on the particular gorillas she had been studying among the 29 groups in the surrounding national park...