Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past masters of the technique, the Viet Cong had a term for it: Danh va dam, dam va danh -- fighting and talking, talking and fighting. By adopting that pattern of feints and jabs, the P.L.O. in the Middle East, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador have managed to keep Washington's foreign policy off-balance and on the defensive. Only now is the Bush Administration beginning to make moves that may allow it to capture some momentum...
...Bush's senior aides and longtime tennis partners, former Harvard government professor Roger Porter, has written a book called Presidential Decision Making that could describe Bush in action. Porter dubs the style , "ad-hocracy," a management pattern that "relies heavily on the President to distribute assignments and select whom he listens to and when...
History shows that genetic misinformation can be severely damaging. Take, for example, the supposed link between the XYY chromosome pattern and criminal behavior. In 1965 a study of violent criminals in a Scottish high-security mental institution found that a surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority...
...Defense Secretary with an untreated drinking problem. The issue is how closely this description fits Tower. There are also legitimate concerns raised by the widespread, but not unequivocally documented, tales of Tower's predatory behavior toward women. If true, the allegations of sexual high jinks seem to reflect a pattern of reckless and perhaps unbalanced behavior that should disqualify Tower for such a sensitive post...
Lewis completed his first LBO in 1984, acquiring McCall Pattern Co. and selling it three years later for a 9000 percent profit. One month later, he managed the largest internatinal LBO in history, putting up $985 million for Beatrice International...